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Media Watchdog Uses Child Porn, Violence to Keep Kids Safe
Almost lost this one from the inbox: Longtime tipster V. points us at this page on the website of Hungary's National Television and Radio Board (ORTT) containing several videos it sponsored/produced which are aimed at drawing attention to the perils of letting kids watch too much teevee. If you don't have a television yourself, we suggest you go check out the three spots shot for the Ne a televízió nevelje fel a gyereket! ("Don't let the television raise the children!") campaign, because they are awesome.
One features a kid being scared shitless by a horror movie while his parent creepily sleep nearby, another has a great bit with a tyke savagely attacking his birthday cake and teddy bear with a butcher's knife, and the third (above) offers one of the most provocative bits of underage video porn we've ever seen. Note, however, that the last vid is definitely NSFW, unless of course you work at the ORTT.
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COMMENT!If you have the patience... here's some of the EU's wordy defence of creating the kiddy skin-flick ad. Basically, Rom/Hungary have different standards of taste. (Just like they have different definitions for abuse.) A kid's a kid.
"Following the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (hereafter AVMS Directive), it is for the competent national authorities, in this case, the Romanian regulator to decide on the decency of the audiovisual content in question. As you know, taste and decency very much relate to cultural values, which is a reason why this is not a harmonised area and there is no a common European concept of taste and decency and common criteria for defining inappropriate content.
"You will understand that sensitivities on some issues can differ between Member States and individuals and what is appropriate in one country may not be felt as such in another. Indeed, it is for the national regulators to decide what content is appropriate to target their audience and convey their message."
Anne Deltour
European Commission
Directorate General for Information Society and Media - Audiovisual and Media policies
