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Case Study OFCOM and Benefit Street 2014 and Channel 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkrX5J73Vi4   What is the debate? The debate is whether it is okay being a poverty porn barrent Against- Benefits is a damaging distortion of society's most vulnerable. For- people on benefit street are always looking the blame someone; the government, landlords anyone else but themselves Society is seen thriving on the hate for the people on benefit street, the use of social media (twitter) has the power to change someones initial thought.    What are OFCOMs aims, regulatory practices, is it statutory or non? Ofcom are Statuary body which corresponds with the government. OFCOM aims Ofcom will regulate with a clearly articulated and publicly reviewed annual plan, with stated policy objectives. Ofcom will intervene where there is a specific statutory duty to work towards a public policy goal which markets alone cannot achieve. Ofcom will operate with a bias against in

"How far do changes to the regulation of media reflect broader social changes?" The human centipede’ where we see them reasoning with their conservative viewpoints only to end up cutting out shorts scenes, which therefore implicates a more liberal aspect has impacted their choice of action. Whereas if we were to compare this to ‘The Evil Dead' in 1981, the BBFC banned the film completely worried it would corrupt children innocence. This would then go on to how desensitisation plays a vital part in the choices being made by them. My position in regulation is to set a moral standard that wont change across time as releasing films that endanger the youth's mental health being is more important to please an audience. Lastly although individual responsibility is important, regulating others is difficult as the threat of the online world acts as a way for them to view content not suitable for them. We should still keep regulating media in film, TV and gaming as it reduces

1. General definition, information The BBFC and PEGI are the two organisations who certificate and rate media products. The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) was set up in 1912 to protect the public from media material that may present harm risk.  Originally the BBFC only classified cinema films until the Video Recordings Act was passed in 1984 when it started regulating videos/DVDs.  In 1984 the BBFC began to regulate video games as well.  From 2 003 the responsibility of regulating video games was passed from the BBFC to PEGI (Pan European Game Information).  However, the BBFC will continue to classify all games that feature strong pornographic content and ancillary games attached to a wider, primary linear submission. The BBFC are an non-government regulatory body to which films are submitted for classification based on their content.  They aim to protect the public by providing them with information that allows them to make a more educated decision