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News: Iceland wants ****ography BANNED!!!
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Iceland wants ****ography BANNED!!!
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(CNN) -- Iceland is working on banning Internet ****ography, 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.
"At the moment, we are looking at the best technical ways to achieve this. But surely if we can send a man to the moon, we must be able to tackle **** on the Internet."
Such a step is somewhat surprising among Western nations that, for the most part, champion free-speech rights. But the move wouldn't be unprecedented in the island nation.
Iceland has had laws banning the printing and distribution of ****ography for years, but those laws haven't been updated to include the Web. And two years ago, the nation's parliament banned strip clubs, saying they violate the rights of the women who work in them.
Iceland would become the first Western democracy to try and block ****ography online.
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Interior Minister Ogmundur Jonasson has appointed committees to study the best methods for keeping young people from seeing explicit images and videos on computers, game consoles and smartphones.
The options being considered, according to the Daily Mail, include blocking the IP addresses of known **** sites and making it illegal to use credit cards from Iceland to subscribe to X-rated sites.
"This move is not anti-sex. It is anti-violence because young children are seeing **** and acting it out," Gunnarsdottir said. "That is where we draw the line. This material is blurring the boundaries for young people about what is right and wrong."
Attempting a total block of **** sites somewhere like the United States, with its legions of public and private portals onto the Web and the millions of software engineers who likely would spring into action to find workarounds, would be nearly impossible.
But Iceland has a population of 322,000 -- roughly the same as St. Louis, Missouri. That, and its remote location 1,300 miles off of the coast of Europe, would make jamming or blocking Web traffic to certain sites easier, if that was the route the government there chose.
The move is, predictably, drawing fire from Web-freedom advocates, including some in Iceland who agree with Jonasson on most issues.
"Since he claimed office as minister, Jonasson has brought forward progressive legislation and has shown that he can be a man of principles and courage. For that, I truly respect him," Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of Iceland's parliament who represents part of Reykjavik, wrote in an editorial for London's The Guardian.
"But he is way off track in his attempts to place a shield around Iceland in order to 'stop ****' from entering the country."
A member of the parliament committee studying the issue, Jonsdottir says a **** 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 ****.
"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."
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http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/15/te...and/index.html
Y'all know Iceland just wants that geyser hot springs business going all year long, no time for ****.
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They banned strip clubs? Lol
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Lol. What dumbasses? Not sure how they see this as 'anti-violence, but ok 
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I don't see why it's so bad. I saw all sorts of naughty things, INCLUDING p*** when I was a child, and it didn't hurt me violently. 
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If violence is the issue then how about banning violent tv shows and movies? Dick has nothing to do with people being violent, if anything it brings people together.
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Are they encouraging children to have sex now?
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That's really quite odd and rather difficult to believe, considering how progressive Iceland is. Same-sex marriage has been legal for quite a while, the country's been ranked number one in gender equality for several consecutive years, the female Prime Minister is married to a woman, and in terms of civil rights in general, it's one of the best places in the world to be.
I adore Iceland, and I feel as though this CNN article is taking advantage of the fact that people don't know a lot about the country; they're exploiting people's ignorance to publish some "juciy" article that's full of unsubstantiated claims. Must be a slow news day.
As the article said, a ****ography ban would absolutely never go through. That would be an authoritarian, non-Icelandic reaction to an unfounded "problem." It would probably only get support from some fringe, one-member conservative party that has no relevance in parliament.
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Funny at how Left and Right have the same values sometimes. *Insert New York with her cigarette laughing gif*
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Iceland has had laws banning the printing and distribution of ****ography for years
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And two years ago, the nation's parliament banned strip clubs, saying they violate the rights of the women who work in them.
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Iceland would become the first Western democracy to try and block ****ography online.
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Damn. I didn't realize how conservative of a country Iceland is. 
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Originally posted by Doc
Damn. I didn't realize how conservative of a country Iceland is. |
It isn't. That's the strange thing. In fact, banning strip clubs, for them, is seen as progressive and a step toward improved gender equality. Come to think about it, while we view some of this as conservative, to them it could be seen as liberal. More rules does not always equate to increased conservatism even if to us the new measures seem conservative. I guess that it has to do with the purpose and the argument supporting the position rather than, in some cases like this, the position itself? Just a thought.
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Member Since: 5/10/2012
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These idiots are hemorrhaging money, yet they propose a ban on a multi-billion dollar industry?
Let's pump more money into underground economies. That worked so well with alcohol and is working so well with "narcotics" like marijuana. 
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Member Since: 6/28/2010
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This is so stupid.
Can't they just encourage parents to install censoring programmes on their computers?
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I did NOT expect this from Iceland 
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Praying for the icelandic pervs. #PrayForIceland
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Originally posted by DAP
These idiots are hemorrhaging money, yet they propose a ban on a multi-billion dollar industry?
Let's pump more money into underground economies. That worked so well with alcohol and is working so well with "narcotics" like marijuana. |
Their motive for this clearly doesn't concern money.
And the breaking of laws is no reason to remove them entirely. Murderers, rapists, and thieves alike would love this argument.
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