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Submission + - Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by Onymous Hero on Thursday February 14, 2013 @11:36AM

Onymous Hero writes: With the printing and distribution of pornography already banned in Iceland, further measures to stop internet porn are being considered by Iceland's Interior Minister Ogmundur Jonasson. From the article: "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."

Submission + - Saudi Arabia Calls For Global Internet Censorship Body (telegraph.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Onymous Hero on Friday October 12, 2012 @02:50AM

Onymous Hero writes: Following the recent YouTube video "The Innocence of Muslims" and the subsequent Muslim violence, Saudi Arabia has stated that there is a “there is a crying need for international collaboration to address ‘freedom of expression’ which clearly disregards public order”. The World Telecommunications Policy Forum (a UN body) is the vehicle by which Saudi Arabia (and possibly other states) will try to use to implement a global set of internet content standards.

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