The BBFC is the organisation dedicated to the contr4ol of music video regulation and their content, which can include things like the representation of religion as well as sexual content and violence. Age restrictions can be applied to videos which contains content the BBFC deem to be unsuitable for younger audiences. Recent events and various music videos have led the government to pay more attention to music videos. This has led to the BBFC looking into sexualisation in music videos especially in areas surrounding children. This government interest has resulted in the video recordings act that should restrict how easily available children can view explicit content. Despite increased government activity into regulating music videos there is still a lot of explicit content available on the internet for anyone to see who has access because it is still very difficult to regulate content on the internet. However people can report things that they believe to be unsuitable.
'Prison sex' by American rock band Tool is an example of a music video which had to be regulated. The music video itself was viewed to be very successful by critics as the video was nominated for MTV's best special effects category. Despite the video not containing any violence or nudity it was banned for how the video tapped into human emotion which was labelled as disturbing content.
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