Iceland targets internet porn

[airiefairie]

Iceland wants to ban Internet porn

Iceland is working on banning Internet pornography, calling explicit online images a threat to children.

'"There is a strong consensus building in Iceland," Halla Gunnarsdottir, an adviser to the nation's Interior Minister, told England's Daily Mail. "We have so many experts, from educationalists to the police and those who work with children behind this, that this has become much broader than party politics.

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A member of the parliament committee studying the issue, Jonsdottir says a porn ban has "near zero" chance of passing parliament and that she's working to find other ways the government can help protect children from Web porn.

"Introducing censorship without compromising freedom of expression and speech is like trying to mix oil and water: It is impossible," she wrote. "I know my fellow MPs can often turn strange and dangerous laws into reality, but this won't be one of them."

Comments

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

Not sure if this would work at all.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

It's double weirder, since our country has been trying to assume the image of the ultimate sanctuary for free-speech dissidents from around the world for quite a while.

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

Buncha false prudes, is what we are.

[matrixmann]

Pornography seems to have become the new scapegoat, I may guess?
All nations one after another develop a campaign against internet pornography, in order to fight pedophiles, forced prostitution and other threats to kids lurking around the net...
And, astonishing as it is, the only thing ever coming out of that is sites being blocked who carry around no such content.
The mafia dealing with flesh doesn't ever have less business to do. The opposite is reality: You still hear reports about mighty or rich humans from governments or economy who sign their contracts while having a good time in a brothel. Or you still hear stories about middle-aged men who look around for child or teen prostitutes exclusively.
...But that's surely too much to fight against. If you want to defeat a mafia, you need another mafia, and you will never find any government spending the money and logistics for wiping this problem out. It's very much easier instead to control the internet and everyone's private matters - and at least this brings up profit.
I see...

[alphistia.livejournal.com]

it ain't gonna work at all, but God bless the Icelanders for trying to squeeze that elephant into the condom. This will spare American fundamentalists from being the first to ban about 60% of the internet. There are far more important issues to be dealt with, even in Iceland :))