Iceland ponders total ban on porn...

[eyer]

A law forbidding the printing and distribution of pornography is already in force in Iceland but it has yet to be updated to cover the internet.

The government is considering introducing internet filters, such as those used to block China off form the worldwide web, in order to stop Icelanders downloading or viewing pornography on the internet.

The unprecedented censorship is justified by fears about damaging effects of the internet on children and women.

"We have to be able to discuss a ban on violent pornography, which we all agree has a very harmful effects on young people and can have a clear link to incidences of violent crime," he [Ogmundur Jonasson, Iceland's interior minister] said.

"Iceland is taking a very progressive approach that no other democratic country has tried," said Professor Gail Dines, an expert on pornography and speaker at a recent conference at Reykjavik University. "It is looking a pornography from a new position - from the perspective of the harm it does to the women who appear in it and as a violation of their civil rights."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...866949/Iceland-considers-pornography-ban.html

 

[koalabear]

That should lower the porn suicide rate by at least 80%.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Whaddaya expect from a country that believes in elves . . .

 

[Tryharder62]

What will the poor people do to stay warm?