For these companies, the real villains are the people who create and update this horrid content. That’s exactly what the platforms would have us believe, reflecting just how successful they’ve been at framing the discussion in Ottawa to fit their interests. So why does the government believe that it cannot act until new legislation passes? Is the legality of promoting child rape videos somehow ambiguous?
Justice Minister Lametti need only dial 911. We don’t need to wait for new legislation. Surely it goes without saying that promoting and profiting from the sexual assault of children is already illegal in Canada.
Pornhub recommending child rape videos isn’t a scandal.
Yet this response betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the issue. In Ottawa, the opposition is asking urgent questions about how this could happen in Canada, and the government is adamant that it will introduce legislation to address the issue of online hate after the House returns from its Christmas break. The Montreal company is the undisputed global leader in online pornography, but it also has a habit of disseminating criminal videos, including of children as young as 14 being sexually assaulted. Louis Public Radio article, here.The New York Times published a stomach-churning report last week about Pornhub.
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Watch a brief clip of one of the films, below, and read the full St. “I just knew that it was gold,” Story said of the films. Many of the men in the film are seen with wedding rings, only able to take a brief respite from the life-long façade they’d constructed for themselves. Story, a gay man himself, was reportedly captivated by the scenes in the film, some depicting uniformed soldiers kissing other men, the fleeting happiness of the scenes a poignant force. “But I don’t know if we’ll actually find them.” “We naively set out thinking, ‘Oh, these men might be in their mid-90s, they could still be alive,’ and that might be true,” said Prusaczyk. He and his co-director, Beth Prusaczyk, have found relatives of some of the men, but none of the men themselves. Since stumbling on the recordings, Story has made an attempt to find anyone from the pool party who might still be alive today and willing to talk about it. Related | The Circle Illuminates Switzerland’s Post-WWII Underground Gay Scene
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“Queens and president’s wives and movie stars – he was always around fancy places and fancy things,” Susie Seagraves, Walton’s niece, told St. The films were bought at the estate sale of Buddy Walton, who was a preferred hairdresser to celebrities in the 40s. The film will explore the time period of the movies, where invisibility was imperative to survival. Having made the rare find of a depiction of queer life during a time when being found out as LGBT could ruin almost every aspect of your life, Story has started piecing together parts of the home movies into Gay Home Movie. Louis Public Radio.ĭecades-old home movies show men in the summer sun, dancing with one another and kissing at a private pool party in 1945, ephemeral freedom radiating from them. A new documentary is under production after filmmaker Geoff Story made a unique discovery at an estate sale in St.