Iceland to Ban Internet Porn!

Drakares · 16-02-2013 01:46PM #1

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/15/tech/web/porn-ban-iceland/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

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.
"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 porn on the Internet."

There will be an uprising in Iceland if this is to get signed into law

Best username ever · 16-02-2013 01:48PM

They better not do that here, I love a good 30 seconds of xhamster when the Missus is out.

Seachmall · 16-02-2013 01:49PM

But surely if we can send a man to the moon, we must be able to tackle porn on the Internet.

I remember when I was that naive.

Good times.

Micky Dolenz · 16-02-2013 01:49PM

Wait? wha?? There is porn on the internet?

Lapin · 16-02-2013 01:51PM

Waiting for the obligatory horse burger / Bjork / joke.

hfallada · 16-02-2013 01:51PM

It wont work. Theyre is always ways around bans. Take the Chinese government firewall that blocks sites like nytimes, facebook, YouTube and pretty much every popular site in the west

But people are still able to get around it with free software called a VPN. Likewise I heard new York times paid up to $40 million for a pay wall that you can avoid by using private browsing on google chrome.

Another policy thats good on paper. But never works in reality

Grayson · 16-02-2013 01:51PM

But

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."

sfwcork · 16-02-2013 01:52PM

That completely eliminates the possibility of me moving there

Id rather be poor than have no porn

mattjack · 16-02-2013 01:58PM

:pac::pac::pac: Iceland ? I never seen any porn there , where is it , in the pizza section ? or near the cash registers .

Stark · 16-02-2013 02:02PM

For the children

repsol · 16-02-2013 02:05PM

If they want to protect children,they should ban catholic priests not porn.

Keen2win · 16-02-2013 02:14PM

repsol wrote: »

If they want to protect children,they should ban catholic priests not porn.

These replies are getting tiring on here.

repsol · 16-02-2013 02:19PM

Sorry Father!

Tipsy McSwagger · 16-02-2013 02:20PM

Nobody should be denied the right to a ****.

MaxSteele · 16-02-2013 02:23PM

The children can go fuck themselves.

Truncheon Rouge · 16-02-2013 02:25PM

W4nk march protest through the streets.

my cock my choice.

Zaph · 16-02-2013 02:25PM

repsol wrote: »

If they want to protect children,they should ban catholic priests not porn.

Keen2win wrote: »

These replies are getting tiring on here.

Agreed. Considering that Catholics account for just 2.5% of the population in Iceland it's even more pointless than usual.

Crimsonforce · 16-02-2013 02:26PM

Best username ever wrote: »

They better not do that here, I love a good 30 seconds of xhamster when the Missus is out.

Haahahahahahaha

Grayson · 16-02-2013 02:27PM

Yer ma went to iceland.

Tomk1 · 16-02-2013 02:29PM

Six months later: "Iceland to encourage people to use the internet" -quote "No one seems to use the web anymore?"

crockholm · 16-02-2013 02:29PM

Does this mean that shooting the movie "Reykja-ass in Reykjavik 4" can continue?

Dempsey · 16-02-2013 02:35PM

A real first world problem!

16-02-2013 02:36PM

What a load of sh!te
If you don't want to look at it then don't

GalwayGuy2 · 16-02-2013 02:40PM

Burn the banks they said, be grand they said;)

kylith · 16-02-2013 02:46PM

.

Dr. Cox wrote:

If you took all the porn off the internet there'd only be one website left, and it'd be called "Bring Back the Porn"

Duggy747 · 16-02-2013 02:49PM

And deny the people of Iceland this!?!

ITS_A_BADGER · 16-02-2013 02:55PM

so they are banning 90% of the internet?

16-02-2013 03:07PM

**** is good for you , for your health mind and well been

Yamanoto · 16-02-2013 03:13PM

bluewolf wrote: »

What a load of sh!te
If you don't want to look at it then don't

You would think so, yeah.

It's kinda symptomatic of an increasingly nannyish social engineering experiment playing out in some Nordic societies. In a push for absolute equality and an egalitarian utopia of sorts, countries which once appeared enlightened and forward-thinking have kinda become a wee bit repressive, counterintuitive as that may seem. At least that's how it appears to me - I've never lived there though, so could be waffling out my asshat

pandaboy · 16-02-2013 03:17PM

IM0 · 16-02-2013 03:20PM

and people think our country is backward!

Iceland to Ban Internet Porn!

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