BBFC Annual Report and Accounts 2018

The complaints were We apply BBFC guidelines to the complained about violence and not about the rating of the film same standard regardless of sexual upsetting scenes but the majority itself but seemed to object to the orientation and so classified the complained about a scene in which actions of the film makers. [...] NCC Group to design the framework • requesting ASPs (those businesses for the voluntary BBFC certification In February 2018, the UK Government who facilitate and support access scheme and carry out the first appointed us as the Age-verification to the pornographic service) to assessments of age-verification Regulator under Part 3 of the DEA withdraw their services. [...] To ensure that the system considered nine to be unsuitable voluntary for the music labels, and is accountable and transparent, we for children under the age of 12 on we continue to evolve our services offer a free appeals procedure that the grounds of strong language, to make it as easy as possible for is open to all, the results of which we violent content, strong sex the music industry to suppor. [...] We also required the distributor to We passed all episodes in Season 1 Similarly, we would have rated the make a cut to the animated feature A of the Netflix animated series Boss animated comedy Smallfoot PG for Wizard’s Tale in order to obtain a U Baby: Back in Business – a spin- a use of ‘crap’, but the distributor age rating. [...] order to get their husbands on board ‘In one scene, a character who is Our view is that the US allegations with a project; and one of the men allergic to blackberries is pelted with were a misinterpretation of the scene subsequently complaining that the the fruit and must use an Epipen to in question.