The Iceland government is drafting a law aimed at banning Internet porn, CBS News reported Monday.
It is designed to protect children. Many are asking how a country as thoroughly wired as Iceland can feasibly ban anything on the Internet?
Interior Minister Ogmundur Jonasson is proposing the ban. Opponents are furious, saying it would undermine Iceland’s reputation as a Scandinavian “bastion of free speech.”
.But those who support the proposal say it will protect children.
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"When a 12-year-old types 'porn' into Google, he or she is not going to find photos of naked women out on a country field, but very hardcore and brutal violence," Halla Gunnarsdottir, political adviser to the interior minister told CBS.. "There are laws in our society. Why should they not apply to the Internet?"
Pornography is technically already banned in Iceland and has been for decades but the law has not been enforced and pornography has never been defined.
Iceland’s leftist government says the ban would rein in porn that has “violent or degrading content” but would not censor sex or ban all porn magazines or Web sites.
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