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Web Censorship Proposed For Norway
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."
If we block any obscene content, our people will become fine, upstanding citizens. And don't tell me to RTFA, because it's in Norwegian.
This will work as well as the chinese one...
So people won't be able to read my blog about how a moose bit my sister once?
Can't stop the Beta? Time to evacuate to ##altslashdot at webchat.freenode.net - Slashcott in effect.
Uhh, what has President Fjord got to do with Norway?
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
but it's in NORWEGIAN!
Grammar Nazi
Norway censor porn? You're kidding, right?
Table-ized A.I.
I agree. The Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big kringle. It's a series of fjords.
If we block any obscene content, our people will become fine, upstanding citizens. And don't tell me to RTFA, because it's in Norwegian.
It's a well known fact that Norwegian blue content is easily blocked. As a matter of fact, the only reason it even shows up on the internet is because it's been nailed there.
Wizard Needs Food, Badly
I will defend your right to be offended, as long as I can be offended by your offense, and I can say what I damn well feel, even I have to further defend you being offended by what I say...ad infinitum.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
...only outlaws will have porn.
Terrorists can't threaten a country's freedom and democracy. Only lawmakers and voters can do that.
To sum up: We're not the worst!
THE INTERNET- so funny they banned it in Norway.
Uh, isn't this from the same country which ruled Apple's DRM scheme as illegal? What happened to "information wants to be free?"
Or is this just Norway sticking its middle finger up at a United States company, only to then stick it up again to the rest of the world?
I don't know a word of Norwegian ...
Neither do I, but trying to translate languages you don't know sounds like a bit of fun ...
blokkere nettsider med ulovlig innhold
looks like to block netsites with 'unlovely' contents
Now have we got any Finnish articles?
Forget Norway!
...the interwebs censor you!