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Looking in the citations in the article itself, these are the references provided, neither of which seem entirely convincing to me: https://calvinayre.com/2018

Looking in the citations in the article itself, these are the references provided, neither of which seem entirely convincing to me: https://calvinayre.com/2018/05/10/business/norway-approves-gambling-restrictions/ https://calvinayre.com/2018/05/10/business/norway-approves-g... https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/norwegian-politicians-want-censor-internet-rule-34-pornography/ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/norwegian-politic...

doktrin 6y ago
That PIA blog post is not exactly high quality. > Norwegian politicians from the Christian People’s Party are shocked that there is porn on the Internet, and want it eliminated – censored off all the Internet pipes as though the pornography doesn’t exist. There's some truth here, but it's presented in a shoddy way. Yes, KrF (Christian People's Party) has at various times made noises about pornography DNS filters. I don't recall all the specifics, but various proposals have included opt-out DNS filter and/or filters in schools and such. While I don't support these proposals, I think the language used really exaggerates the reality (and few or none of these measures have ever gained much headway, either at the national or local level) > If you read the Norwegian Christian paper, though, it is expressing itself very positively toward this censorship (which is somewhat weird for a newspaper, any newspaper – those generally oppose censorship vehemently and defend any and all freedom of the press). They really dug deep on this one. The paper in question (Dagen) has a circulation of slightly over 10,000. That's not even among the top 20 in the country [1]. I'd be skeptical of assigning much weight to their coverage. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Norway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Norway

doktrin 6y ago

That PIA blog post is not exactly high quality. > Norwegian politicians from the Christian People’s Party are shocked that there is porn on the Internet, and want it eliminated – censored off all the Internet pipes as though the pornography doesn’t exist. There's some truth here, but it's presented in a shoddy way. Yes, KrF (Christian People's Party) has at various times made noises about pornography DNS filters. I don't recall all the specifics, but various proposals have included opt-out DNS filter and/or filters in schools and such. While I don't support these proposals, I think the language used really exaggerates the reality (and few or none of these measures have ever gained much headway, either at the national or local level) > If you read the Norwegian Christian paper, though, it is expressing itself very positively toward this censorship (which is somewhat weird for a newspaper, any newspaper – those generally oppose censorship vehemently and defend any and all freedom of the press). They really dug deep on this one. The paper in question (Dagen) has a circulation of slightly over 10,000. That's not even among the top 20 in the country [1]. I'd be skeptical of assigning much weight to their coverage. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Norway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Norway