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PG Porn? Ex-Tory MP’s Daughter Lands in Hot Water After Suggesting Making Adult Films for Teens
As is the case with numerous tweets made in the heat of the moment, journalist Flora Gill’s post was quickly screen-grabbed and reported by netizens despite the author rushing to delete it.
UK journalist and daughter of a Tory home secretary, Flora Gill, has landed in hot water online after she proposed to “create porn for children” in a tweet. In a separate post, she quickly corrected herself, saying she meant teens aged 14+.
Gill claimed that many underage children are watching porn regardless of whether they are prohibited from doing so, and argued that if they are doing it anyway, then they should watch “entry-level porn […] where everyone asks for consent and no one gets choked”. The journalist added that most of the porn available online is “hard core, aggressive” and gives a “terrible view of sex”.
Flora Gill, blue check journalist, she/her. pic.twitter.com/99KlIBsJSQ
— Way of the World (@wayotworld) July 29, 2021
It is not hard to predict what happened next – such a proposal quickly found stringent opponents, who soon filled in the comments section below her tweets. Gill, in turn, said she refused to be “swept up into another twitter cesspool”, and deleted the controversial posts and urged everyone to take a deep breath.
Unfortunately for Flora Gill, the internet does not work that way and Twitterians ignored her pleas to pretend that these tweets never happened. Instead, screenshots of her posts resurfaced online, continuing to generate condemnation of the British journalist.
Absolutely not getting swept up into another twitter cesspool so deleted tweet before it picks up steam! Obviously not an actual solution, but it is a real problem. Everyone take a deep breath
— Flora Gill (@FloraEGill) July 29, 2021
Absolutely sadistic and morally corrupt!!!!
— Mary Griffin (@marygriffinsing) July 29, 2021
Flora Gill demonstrating why afternoon drinking is not always a good idea ??♂️
— A Fan Of Many Things (@CWaldron83) July 29, 2021
This is her everytime she tweets lmfao pic.twitter.com/IuKEdMUawR
— Demosthenes✊? (@ceidwadol) July 29, 2021
Others noted that the porn the journalist described, already exists. The issue is that teens can’t get access them – that’s why they opt for the free hardcore videos.
I don’t think so, but there is a Berlin festival where the people owning this space chat every year 🙂 they’re the experts. Ethical porn seriously looks SO different to say Pornhub. It’s cinematic, proper character development, brings in consent…Erika Lust’s work is ??
— Sophia Smith Galer (@sophiasgaler) July 29, 2021
Several Twitterians jumped at the chance to point out that Flora Gill was the daughter of Tory MP and former Home Secretary Amber Rudd, who resigned from her post and did not run for a new term in the wake of a conflict over Boris Johnson’s Brexit policies.
Well imagine that…. pic.twitter.com/Lc9N0EUcK3
— John Palmer (@BlackBessDick) July 29, 2021
Starting a tweet with the word apropos isn't going to help getting a stupid tweet about 'making entry level porn for children' forgotten
It would be illegal. One might hope that any 'journalist' but especially the daughter of recent Home Secretary Amber Rudd, would know that https://t.co/cuvrCQqarT pic.twitter.com/0GjvPT45XO
— Will Black (@WillBlackWriter) July 29, 2021