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About Jerry Barnett
The author
Jerry Barnett became active in the antiracism
movement as a teenager in the late1970s, and
for the next several years was involved in anti
racism, antifascism, antiapartheid and other
causes of the 1980s left. He began a software
career in the mid1980s, and was an early Inter
net user, getting his first email address in 1988.
When, in 1995, the web started to become
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versity debates and in the media. In 2012, he
closed his software business, set up the Sex
& Censorship campaign, and started work on
Porn Panic!, his first book.
Jerry has three children one adult and two
preschool and lives with his family in south
east London. He is also a photographer, and is
a frequent traveller, especially to subsaharan
Africa, when time allows. He loves music of
many genres, and is proud to be one of Lon
don’s oldest ravers.
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