Iceland considers pornography ban

A curious opening sentence: "Iceland could become the first Western democracy to attempt censorship of the internet under radical proposals to block online pornography."

The US has the 2003 Protect act, which has already been used against someone importing paper (not electronic or online) manga into the US.[1]

The UK has the Internet Watch Foundation which maintains a list of websites and Usenet forums which shouldn't be carried and which coordinates legal activities. We have several laws making some forms of pornography illegal.

Australia has (had?) their well known block list.

And I'm not some free-speech extremist - I see a clear difference in regular porn and images of abuse where the participants have not (and can not) consent.

> "We have to be able to discuss a ban on violent pornography, which we all agree has a very harmful effects on young people and can have a clear link to incidences of violent crime," he said.

I am disturbed by the rise of horrible porn, and the easy access to it. Even though I'm happy to ban some types of porn and some images of abuse I know that blocking porn is a wrong-headed approach.

"But surely if we can send a man to the moon, we must be able to tackle porn on the internet."

If I recall correctly, it wasnt Iceland that sent a man to the moon. Oh well, at least they are protecting their women.

Barbaric