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There is a short explanation in English on the Finnish police force's web site which makes an effort to explain their organizational structure and the role of National Police Board.

Police is announced that it will going to list URLs instead of domain names in it's filtering list which it gives ot ISPs.

Effectively this means that ISPs must use proxy for filtering.

http://www.pelastakaalapset.fi/nettivihje/english/www-page.php
http://www.poliisi.fi/poliisi/krp/home.nsf/pages/indexeng

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First I have to give condolances to the victims' families. This is a really sad incident.

In Finland, Europe, you need a permit to buy and own a firearm. The permits are granted by Police and you have to wait for the permit about 1-2 weeks. Approved purposes for owning a firearm are:
- shooting of animals as permitted by hunting legislation
- shooting competitions and other target shooting
- work in which a firearm is necessary
- demonstration, filming or other similar presentation
- keeping in a museum or collection
- keeping as a memento
- signalling.

Taken from the pages of Finnish Police:
http://www.poliisi.fi/poliisi/home.nsf/pages/C72E5 8A5707DBF7CC2256C45003923A1

There were 112 manslaughters, murders or homicides in the year 2006 in Finland according to Statistics Finland. I have a feeling that many of them were done under the influence of alcohol (Which is really sad also).
http://tilastokeskus.fi/tup/suoluk/suoluk_oikeusol ot_en.html

It is really difficult to buy illegal firearms or such. For example I am 28 years and I wouldn't know where to buy an illegal firearm if I really wanted to (Of cource I don't want to). All automatic and other dangerous weapons are also illegal in Finland. I have never felt unsafe anywhere in my country. Of cource you have to remember that there are only 5,25 million inhabitants in Finland.

Here's a link for the central internet exchange for Finnish ISP's to link together. Coralized FICIX stats.

Compare the stats from week ago, and today. Guess what changed?
Most telling is the last graph indicating traffic for the whole year.
The largest Finnish torrent site, Finreactor got busted by Keskusrikospoliisi (roughly the same as FBI of USA).

I guess they weren't sharing just Linux images ;P

http://www.poliisi.fi/poliisi/krp/home.nsf/PFBD/28 FB313B1DCD10EAC2256F6A004A5FA5?opendocument in Finnish, sorry.

Actually. This has been kind of 'outlawed' here in Finland. What happened is that there was a link to police-website in a website that had information about a rescue helicopter.

A representative of police demanded that the hyperlink must be removed from the rescue helicopter's webpage!

I'm not sure if we have it in our legislation, but as ridiculous as it sounds, it's true.

*sigh*

In a somewhat comical incident, the same thing happened in Finland when the police forces sent a cease-and-desist letter to an association for linking to their main page (and with probably as much foundation in law as in this case).