Calls inspired by Icelandic block of violent material.
Finnish Minister for Justice, Anna-Maja Henriksson (pictured), is backing extending Finland's current pornography censorship to move beyond child pornography. Under current Finnish law, the NBI (National Bureau of Investigation) maintains a blocklist of foreign sourced child pornography websites, as it cannot take direct action against them.
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I know some pretty hot people come from those Nordic countries, but if they are talking about censoring people like the woman in the picture, I say do it quickly. =)
Originally posted by SuckRaven: I know some pretty hot people come from those Nordic countries, but if they are talking about censoring people like the woman in the picture, I say do it quickly. =)
I disagree. There is no need to censor porn; simply require the porn producers to put this woman's photo on the cover, and no one will buy it.
Quite.
Given that so much of this kind of material is fantasy & play stuff - and not everyone's tastes are the same - what gives anyone the right to dictate?
Don't they already have laws in Finland that guard & protect children, women & everyone else against violent conduct, coercion & abuse?
Originally posted by Interestx: " Who decides what "violent pornography is?"
Quite.
Given that so much of this kind of material is fantasy & play stuff - and not everyone's tastes are the same - what gives anyone the right to dictate?
Don't they already have laws in Finland that guard & protect children, women & everyone else against violent conduct, coercion & abuse?
Actually no they don't its quite disgusting i have had foreign exchange students that where glad to get out of the country because finland is trying to clean up there act because before they had no laws against pornography which was not cool and even germany has no laws against pornography of a illegal nature which isn't cool there are times where porn can be considered art and expression but there are stuff that i wouldn't even allow my kids to see
Originally posted by megadunderhead: Actually no they don't
They don't have what?
Are you seriously trying to tell me that Finland does not have laws against violence, coercion or the abuse of people?
I don't believe that.
Originally posted by megadunderhead: they had no laws against pornography
Ah, so they allow a level of pornography you find offensive.
That is not the same thing.
Originally posted by megadunderhead: even germany has no laws against pornography of a illegal nature
Illegal to whom tho?
In Germany it is not illegal, just as it is in many European countries.
But I don't think you'll find any European country allows genuine voilent porn where people are actually & deliberately injured.
My point is that we already have laws about this, we don't need any more....especially not silly ones which intrude into the bedroom & try to limit people at play.
Play is not the same thing.
Originally posted by megadunderhead: but there are stuff that i wouldn't even allow my kids to see
Yes, ok, and?
Hardcore porn isn't to everyone's taste, that's fair enough and of course you are free to exclude it from your life and that of your kids (to some extent at least, many kids seem to find some somewhere sometime in their lives) .
But porn (magazine covers, video cases, DVD cases) has been in sex shop windows in big towns & cities all over Europe (and wider afield) without the sky falling down or the end of civilisation as we know it.
Similarly the internet has seen it available just about anywhere and we have not been swamped by a torrent of sex-crime.
Perhaps it's not actually the harmful thing you imagine it to be?
