Administrator DKT27 Posted March 13, 2013 Administrator Share Posted March 13, 2013 Ban voted down amid censorship concernshttp://rt.com/files/news/1e/51/00/00/guest-porn-ban-1800.mp4 Language that would ban online pornography has been dropped from a report approved by the European Parliament. But major concerns over the future of Internet privacy remain as legislators themselves were blocked from reading constituents' complaints.Members of the European Parliament voted 368-159 in favor of passing a report titled “Eliminating gender stereotypes in the EU.”The rejection of a controversial “porn ban” proposal has seemingly become a major victory for online freedom. But the result was “a little bit unclear,” Christian Engstrom, MEP with Sweden's Pirate Party, told RT.“The European Parliament said no to turning Internet service providers into porn police, and they said no to setting up authorities to regulate media,” Engstrom explained, adding, though, that the European Parliament still expresses support for an older resolution to ban pornography.The particular clause has been dropped from the text of the new resolution, but it still contains references to an earlier resolution passed by the parliament in 1997 which calls for “statutory measures to prevent any form of pornography in the media and in advertising.” Although the resolution is not legally binding, it can be used as a basis to form legislation.The “gender stereotypes” report was first introduced back in December 2012. The porn-blocking proposals were suggested by MEP for the Dutch Socialist Party Kartika Tamara Liotard, and went mostly unnoticed until some of the MEPs sounded the alarm in March calling on citizens to protest the measure.The controversy further escalated after hundreds of e-mails sent to MEPs about the vote were blocked.Engstrom was one of the MEPs outraged by the interference by the European Parliament’s IT department to filter politicians’ mail.“I wrote a letter to the president of the European Parliament, complaining and saying that I find it completely unacceptable, if the Parliament’s IT support department suddenly decides to block communication from my voters,” Engstrom told RT.“My job as an elected parliamentarian is to be in contact with citizens and voters,” he added. “I find it unacceptable that the Parliament blocks that.”Similar tactics to shield MEPs from the voice of the people were used during the worldwide protest against the Antipiracy Trade Agreement (ACTA) which is seen as a direct attack on privacy and freedom on the Internet.Although ACTA was rejected by most of the European Parliament, activists are concerned that legislators are still looking for alternative routes to impose censorship under the guise of copyright protection or protecting audiences from harmful information.“In general we see this trend with many different actors wanting to censor the Internet, wanting to control the Internet,” Engstrom said. “So what we’re doing is trying to defend the freedom of the Internet, because we believe it is absolutely essential in a free and open society to have a free Internet, without censorship and without a lot of surveillance.”Meanwhile, at the level of member states EU legislators are also mulling the idea of banning pornography. Last December the UK became the first country to try and block access to all pornography websites. The idea however was rejected over the lack of public support.Later in February, Icelandic legislators revealed that they are looking for the best technical ways to “tackle porn on the Internet,” raising concerns that Iceland’s online pornography censorship scheme would be implemented all over the EU. :view: View: Original ArticleThanks to davhag for the info. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nautilus Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Nice.Save porn,ban the EU! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Congratiolations, this time those power hungry unelected mone grabbers voted wisely but WHO gave them the power to decide on this matter anyway. No one in the EUSSR did! No one wants them, in fact when we in Holland (and France and Ireland) got to vote on them we rejected them overwhelmingly. What's stopping these dickwads to take away our other freedoms when they do feel like it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyon275 Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Let the fapping begin :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ande Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Ban porn and we will have much more predators on the streets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted March 13, 2013 Author Administrator Share Posted March 13, 2013 Ban porn and we will have much more predators on the streets.My views exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjoa Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 You should came to Argentina, you can do whatever you want on internet, unless it's against goverment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LORD MADA Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Porn shouldn't by handled through banin fact ban will cause more porn... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tezza Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Global internet pron habits.(18)An enlightening interactive infographic, revealing the top ten internet pron search terms of countries, collated over a six-month period.http://www.pornmd.com/sex-search :o :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davhag Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Wow it is amazing to see that teen is in the top two and three in most states. I do not want to go back to someone not knowing what the hell they are doing. lol.. It is all i can do at my agee aand health to get it up anyway. lol... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 You should came to Argentina, you can do whatever you want on internet, unless it's against goverment.Oh, you guys are awesome - you digitized that, too (well - where I come from, we still do it in bed.) :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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calguyhunk Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Global internet pron habits.(18)An enlightening interactive infographic, revealing the top ten internet pron search terms of countries, collated over a six-month period.http://www.pornmd.com/sex-search :o :lol:Amazing to see the Indian search terms. It's all 'bout Indian this and Indian that. Can understand why though :P "Indian" is also the 3rd highest rated in NZL and 2nd hottest in GBR after "British". It's at a 'lowly' no. 7 down under (AUS) though ;) All those NRI's dammit. After all, that's prolly why they say "you can take a man outta India but you can't take India out of a man" :lol:P.S. - And did any one of you notice that the top Pakistani search term is "Indian $ex video"? And also "Indian Bhabi" is in there somewhere. Now that's just LOL! :lol:EDIT: In Peru, Venezuela and Chile, almost every search term is Gay!!! :wtf: Don't they have straight men there??? :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted March 15, 2013 Author Administrator Share Posted March 15, 2013 EDIT: In Peru, Venezuela and Chile, almost every search term is Gay!!! :wtf: Don't they have straight men there??? :oWas surprised to find so many gay searches. Then it struck me, lot of those searches could have been done by girls / females. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davhag Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 I loved lesbian porn when I was addicted but then I got older and realized the only reason I ate that stuff was to see what I could get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tezza Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 EDIT: In Peru, Venezuela and Chile, almost every search term is Gay!!! :wtf: Don't they have straight men there??? :oWas surprised to find so many gay searches. Then it struck me, lot of those searches could have been done by girls / females.I like your thinking there D ^_^ :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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