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Web Censorship Proposed For Norway

Posted by kdawson on from the great-firewall dept.

Aqwis writes "A Norwegian Web filtering system (link in Norwegian), comparable to the Great Firewall of China, has been proposed to the Norwegian legislature. It would, if enacted, block all Web sites and servers that contain hate material (racial hate, pro-Nazi sites, hate towards the government, etc.), most kinds of pornography (not only child pornography), foreign gambling sites, and sites that share copyrighted or other material that it is not legal to share (such as most BitTorrent sites and services such as LimeWire). Reactions have been mixed; however they are mostly negative."

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  1. Re:Things That Offend and You Aren't Allowed to Sa by heinousjay · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Prejudice is a lovely thing, particularly when exposed through a nice strawman. I'm going to go ahead and assume that you aren't American, and as such, you are proof the being an asshole knows no country.

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  2. Re:Good to know by Guuge · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But in the US we elect them to our government. Who are the idiots again?

  3. Re:Right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Pornography depicts those "exaggerated" fantasy situations because those situations are, in fact, what people want to be able to do.

    Cut the crap will you? Pornography doesn't necessarily depict exaggerated fantasy situations at all. Of course I don't know what it is that you are watching.

    Pornography functions to instruct young men on how to interelate sexually with women. And it functions to provide sexual relief to older men, who never managed to hook up with a real woman, because as a young man their idea on how to sexually interact with women was informed by pornography!