UK law threatens prison for some private porn as sites purge clips
Original title: Bad news for kinky Brits
Creators say Clips4Sale removed hundreds of videos with little notice, including clips they believed were compliant.
A 404 Media newsletter says a UK law in force from Friday can mean up to five years in prison for distributing or possessing specified choking, suffocation and related pornography, including private recordings not offered for sale. Adult creators report platforms, especially Clips4Sale, deleting hundreds of videos they thought complied, shortly before holiday sales. Separately, Meta fully paused a commercial-terms change that would have let it use business-account website content to train products, after earlier moving the date from October 30 to November 20. The letter also describes an archaeology report on ancient cannabis use.
Unconfirmed: Creators say deleted videos did not appear to break the law; that reading is their claim.
- Creator Sophia Truee said more than 20 years of work could be wiped.
- Clips4Sale, launched in 2003, is described as calling removals a precautionary measure.
- Meta’s paused terms covered content from business-account domains, pages and URLs.
- The newsletter’s cannabis item is an archaeology report, not a cyber or AI event.
- Vendors
- Meta
- Organizations
- Clips4Sale
- Countries
- United Kingdom
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