2013-02-14

Social mood and pornography

What's interesting about this story is something that links it with other developments in the West: authoritarian feminism. Or as John Adams put it in a letter to his wife, the tyranny of the petticoat.
Iceland considers pornography ban
The unprecedented censorship is justified by fears about damaging effects of the internet on children and women.

Ogmundur Jonasson, Iceland's interior minister, is drafting legislation to stop the access of online pornographic images and videos by young people through computers, games consoles and smartphones.

"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.
Methods under consideration include blocking access to pornographic website addresses and making it illegal to use Icelandic credit cards to access pay-per-view pornography.

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