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The draft law can be adopted this spring. With the law coming into effect all porn-websites will be banned and their IP-addresses will be blocked. It will be no longer possible to pay for the services of porn suppliers using credit cards of Iceland’s banks. To those who claim that it is impossible to ensure such a ban technically the senior the minister’s adviser Halla Gunnarsdóttir responds that if humans managed to send a man to the Moon it is definitely possible to win porn in the Internet. According to Professor Gail Dines at Wheelock College in Boston Massachusetts, Iceland is showing a rather advanced approach towards the problem of pornography in the internet.
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Ironically, it was Scandinavian countries namely Iceland closest relatives Denmark and Sweden where porn expansion started the 1960-s. However over the last 15 years porn has seriously evolved, Dines says.
According to the European statistics reports, Iceland remains one of the most advanced countries in terms of number of internet users. 95-98% of the country’s population has the access to the internet. At the same time, according to national statistics, in Iceland 14-year-16-year olds spend more time on porn websites than teenagers in other European countries. It should be noted that printed pornography was banned on Iceland about 10 years ago. The Interior Minister Ögmundur Jónasson has already made a mark with a number of bans. In 2009, the government banned prostitution, in 2010 - strip-clubs and in 2011 – internet gambling. Jonasson took part in all these initiatives.
