I will state that such legal imprudence does aggravate me, but very clearly less than it does you. Defending your community is heroic, not cowardly.

Sadly, I erred in the passage you quote above, citing the Guardian rather than the BBC, which I have since rectified. In the paragraph where I discuss the Crown getting a share of the revenue, I link https://stateofthenation.co/?p=24229, which I spent some hours seeking to find false claims at. However, to my great shock, despite the scurrilous nature of the claims regarding the activities of the royal family, I was not able to disprove a single specific event.

Given that failure - and I do invite anyone to share any evidence that disproves any of the claims at that site - I must note that revenue sharing from an endeavor is well known to create increased support for that endeavor. I conclude that OF sharing an additional 10% of it's revenue when it is shown to insufficiently prevent children from being published in pornography on the site is a kickback to the UK, and not some punitive fine, but graft that creates a mutual profit motive to publish child pornography for both OF and the UK.

"Are you saying that the current UK government allows the production and sale of child pornography?"

That certainly seems to be the intent of the proposed 10% revenue sharing 'fine' for publishing child pornography to me. I also note that several times in the article, people mention 'companies', plural. Not just OF then, but multiple child pornographers are covered by this proposed legislation. That appears to me to suggest this is an attempt by the UK to create a child pornography industry, and not just one company that provides 10% of it's revenues to the UK.

I am quite outraged at the barely concealed profiteering motive of the UK for proposing such a revenue based fine, that very obviously enables child pornography publishers to prosper with a combined tax and fine rate that is lower than American workers pay just in federal taxes on their wages. It would be more profitable for a ditch digger or a McDonalds worker to publish child pornography in the UK than to do honest work, or at least they'd get to keep a larger percentage of their earnings if they did.

It is horrific and shameful.

Thanks!