Zensur im Internet: Konservative, Radikalfeministen und Evangelikale finden zusammen

Der Kampf viktorianischer Feministinnen gegen eine freie Sexualität geht weiter. Während Deutschland dieses Jahr mit der "Aufschrei"-Kampagne und der Kampagne gegen Prostitution zu tun hatte, geht es andernorts erotischen Filmen im Internet an den Kragen:

As Britain enacts laws forcing Internet companies to block access to pornography unless customers opt in, a fledgling movement is under way to bring similar laws to Canada.

“If we can get a man on the moon, certainly we can figure out a way to protect children from unwanted porn,” said Winnipeg Conservative MP Joy Smith, who is formulating a private member’s bill that would automatically block access to online pornography. Anyone wanting to access porn would have to contact their Internet service providers.

Mrs. Smith hosted a recent meeting for parliamentarians and other stakeholders in Ottawa, with speakers including Gail Dines, a self-described radical feminist and sociology professor at Boston’s Wheelock College who founded the Stop Porn Culture group, and Julia Beazley, policy analyst at the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada.

(...) The regulation of pornography is “going to happen all over the world,” she said. (Two of Mrs. Smith’s private member’s bills related to human trafficking have been adopted since being elected in 2004.)

"Yesterday, I got a letter from a young boy 10 years of age telling me he was addicted to porn," she said. "It just brought me to tears."

(...) Anti-Internet-censorship activist Bennett Haselton, founder of peacefire.org, a website that creates portals to get around blocked sites, said the burden of proof should be on anti-porn activists "to show that what they are blocking is harmful somehow."

"In the United States and Canada and most other developed countries, an entire generation now has grown up that, for the most part, actually did have unrestricted Internet access, and they’re not mentally warped by it. There’s no evidence that they’ve been harmed by it," said Mr. Haselton.

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