Deeper Down The Rabbit Hole

Jason M. Colwell welcomes Jerry Barnett to the show, to discuss his book Porn Panic! Sex And Censorship In The UK. Jerry had been a political activist since first attending anti-racism protests as a teenager in the late-70s. He became a software engineer and technical consultant in working for a decade for a number of leading technology brands. In the mid-1990s with the onset of the Internet, he saw an opportunity to set up a web software business, finding work with the online adult entertainment industry, which represented the largest and most profitable online business at the time. He later set up his own successful pay-per-view service. As a participant in adult entertainment, Jerry saw first-hand how the British censorship state, aided by morality campaigners, was trying to regain control of a medium that reduced their power, influence and financial gain. The UK is the most censored society in Europe, but censorship laws designed for a world of cinema, TV and video no longer worked in the digital age,