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According to article 210 of the Icelandic penal code, whoever prints, imports, sells, or distributes pornographic material, or has it publicly on display, will get fined or jailed up to 6 months. Still, porn is still available in Icelandic bookstores, sex shops, and of course via the almighty internet.
Iceland has taken a critical step to ban online pornography – and if successful it will be the first Western industrial nation to do so. According to Icelandic interior minister Ogmundur...
It's not clear exactly what methods the government would use to prevent people from peeking at porn, but the Telegraph reports Iceland is considering blocking access to pornographic website...
There’s a campaign afoot in Iceland to seriously restrict underage access to hardcore porn, and it’s drawing the typical outcries of free expression curtailment.
Authorities in Iceland want to find out. The government of the tiny North Atlantic nation is drafting plans to ban pornography, in print and online, in an attempt to protect children from a...
The Ministry is reportedly working on a draft law on the subject that would block porn websites and prohibit payment for access to them using credit cards supplied by Icelandic banks. (Andrey Fedyashin, Internet Censorship: Iceland – Porn-Free Island, THE VOICE OF RUSSIA (Feb. 18, 2013).) Iceland already has anti-pornography provisions that ...
Iceland is working on banning Internet pornography, calling explicit online images a threat to children. ‘“There is a strong consensus building in Iceland,” Halla Gunnarsdottir, an adviser to...
Controversial plans by Iceland’s government to try to limit access to pornography online and in print to protect children have sparked international opposition.
Iceland's intentions are good: their interior minister wants to protect the country's children from violent images in porn. But to understand the proposed ban — a sweep of online content...
Iceland already forbids the printing and distribution of pornography; those laws just don’t currently extend to the Internet. If adopted, however, the new ban could go into effect as early as...