Just as we thought Iceland has long respected Internet freedom and free from Internet surveillance, now it looks to censor porn altogether instead of just child porn.
Halla Gunnarsdottir had this to say about the Internet being somewhat lawless: “There are laws in our society. Why should they not apply to the Internet”?
Sounds like a huge response for taking a country’s law books and presence to the Internet, while the authoritarian regimes are already doing the same, such as Iran, China and Russia.
The UK ISPs wanted to block out porn by default, by making it an option for Internet subscribers to opt in if needed, if they want to view this kind of content. Will Iceland resort to this model?
Australia conducted a test in 2008 on Internet filtering of porn and depictions of crime and drug use. Some parts of that country are still doing this now.
As soon as a regime censors one form of Internet, it’s a pretext to censor anything else that they think violates the laws in their country, or simply do not approve of.
So fellow Icelanders: Tell those politicians to respect Internet freedom by not posing as Internet cops over what you can do and post like in Communist China and Islamic Iran.
Source: MSN News
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