So does this mean that i’m a criminal for lets some people spank me till i bleed?
Sadly, the law is already woolly enough to allow an assault conviction to be pursued in that case; consent doesn’t come into it.
At the risk of being a bit Daily Mail “slippery slope / thin end of the wedge” fallacy (phallusy, ho ho!), what concerns me is that when the filtering technology is established and proven, it’s fairly inevitable that the next step is to use it to enforce other laws. It’d be a sad state of affairs if a couple in a loving relationship ended up on the sex offenders list for shopping for floggers.
And it’s not just sex either, of course. Trying to buy drugs on the Internet? Organising an illegal rave? Torrenting last night’s Big Brother? It seems highly unlikely that this tech will go in and then the government won’t want to use it.