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Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban

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.""

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  1. "It is looking a pornography from a new position.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "It is looking a pornography from a new position..."

    Meh. I've seen all the positions (and done most of them).

  2. Obligatory XK,, err, Dilbert by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dilbert is coding protection software to keep minors from viewing porn.

    Dogbert: So, you're pitting your intellect against the collective sex drives of every teenager on the planet?

    Dilbert: Yes.

    Dogbert: Did you know that if you put a little hat on it a snowball can last a long time in hell?

  3. Re:fuck you iceland. by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Funny

    LOL ... pics or it didn't happen is the appropriate meme here.

    I'm sure lots of people would be interested in your, um, various parts. ;-)

    OK, I'm a bad person, I know it.

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  4. Re:"It is looking a pornography from a new positio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    except for the ones involving more than one person.

  5. Isn't that like... by roc97007 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ....93% of the internet? The entire country could be served by one router.

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  6. Re:fuck you iceland. by QRDeNameland · · Score: 5, Funny

    It isn't like anyone is holding a gun to any of these women to disrobe, or have sex on screen (they have to sign papers about age and all this anyway)...how could it possibly be in any way, an imposition on their civil rights??!!?

    Is freedom of choice what to do with yourself not a civil right? What about that?

    The comedian Doug Stanhope I think summed it up best:

    "If God had intended women to prostitute themselves, he would have given them free will and a vagina."

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  7. Re:fuck you iceland. by dkleinsc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which is just an extension of an older idea expressed best by Oscar Wilde: "If we were meant to be naked, we would've been born that way."

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  8. Re:well... by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is trafficing huge?

    I watch Law and Order Special Victims Unit, and yes, it's huge. The entire female population of Russia has been kidnapped and forced into prostitution in New York City.

    I also learned that all Russian women are gorgeous, all Russian men are angry, and video games make teenage boys murder people.

    The only thing I've noticed to be actually true is that there really are a lot of good looking Russian women. something in the water over there?

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  9. Re:fuck you iceland. by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Funny

    as a woman who's various parts are all over the internet

    What, a female distributed AI? Cool!

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