Lapsiporno.info
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Lapsiporno.info ("
By December 2007, following changes in Finnish legislation,
To prove his claims, Nikki published the results of his research on his website, including a list of the blocked addresses he found. Analyzing the address list, Nikki also noted that the first three
Censored by the Finnish police
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On February 12, 2008, after customers of the Finnish ISP
EFFI has demanded NBI to explain why a website that only contained articles and a list of blocked addresses was censored. Leena Romppainen, member of the board of EFFI, stated that "if the site really had some illegal content, wouldn't the correct solution be to take the site down and take the site owner to the court? The site is located on a Finnish server and the name of the site owner appears visibly on the root page of the site." Most of the censored websites on Nikki's list are located either in the United States or in the European Union, and Romppainen continued: "The local authorities have taken no action on these sites. Therefore, either the sites do not contain child pornography or the NBI has not informed the local authorities. Both of the alternatives are equally scary." Tero Tilus of EFFI stated that "some faceless official decides which sites the Finns may not see, and this decision cannot be appealed. Now he has apparently decided that net filtering may not be criticised."[8][9]
Nikki believes that one of the reasons leading to his website being blacklisted was a function that he added to his address list, which simply turned a list of static text into clickable links. He states that he had already known that the police are adding websites to the filtering list based on this, and said that he will not remove the link functionality, because there is nothing illegal about it.[4] On his website, Nikki has also reminded that the Internet filtering system was originally implemented despite University of Turku's Faculty of Law's statement that the system would be against the Constitution of Finland.
The content of lapsiporno.info was quickly mirrored to other servers, and Nikki has helped this copying by releasing the website content under the
By February 19, a group of Finns had gone through Nikki's list of 1047 censored websites and published their research, according to which nine of the sites contained child pornography, nine were unrelated to pornography, 28 had content hard to categorize as legal or illegal, 46 were (legal)
In May 2011, three years after Nikki's site was blacklisted, the administrative court of Helsinki ruled in favor of Nikki against blacklisting his website. According to the court, the law could only be used to block access to foreign websites. Both Nikki and NBI said they were deliberating on filing an appeal to the Supreme Administrative Court. Nikki was dissatisfied with the court's decision to not cover his legal fees.[17]
On August 26, 2013, the Supreme Administrative Court overruled the previous decision, allowing the site to be blacklisted again.[18] Nikki briefly considered appealing to the European Court of Human Rights. [19]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Finland censors anti-censorship site". The Register. 2008-02-18. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
- ^ "Lapsipornolistat ovat tehottomia ja laittomia". Digitoday (in Finnish). 2008-01-08. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- ^ a b "Effi kantelee poliisin nettisensuurista oikeuskanslerille". Digitoday (in Finnish). 2008-02-19. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
- ^ a b "Poliisi sensuroi lapsiporno.infon". Digitoday (in Finnish). 2008-02-13. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- ^ YLE(in Finnish). 2008-02-13. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- ^ YLE. 2008-02-13. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
- ^ "Hallituksen esitys Eduskunnalle laiksi lapsipornografian levittämisen estotoimista". Finlex (in Finnish). 2006-07-21. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
- ^ "Sensuuria vastustava nettisivu poliisin suodatuslistalle". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 2008-02-13. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- ^ "Effi: Finnish police censors a critic of censorship". Electronic Frontier Finland. 2008-02-13. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- ^ "Kasvi: miksi kotimainen sivu sensuroitiin?". Tietokone (in Finnish). 2008-02-13. Archived from the original on 2008-02-14. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- ^ "Poliisi ei kommentoi Nikin sivuja". Tietokone (in Finnish). 2008-02-13. Archived from the original on 2008-02-14. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- ^ "Poliisin nettisensuurista tulvii kanteluita viranomaisille". Tietokone (in Finnish). 2008-02-14. Archived from the original on 2008-02-15. Retrieved 2008-02-14.
- ^ "Nikki joutuu kuulusteluun rikoksesta epäiltynä". Tietokone (in Finnish). 2008-02-15. Archived from the original on 2008-02-19. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
- ^ "Nikin sensuroidut sivut vapautettiin syytteistä". Tietokone (in Finnish). 2009-03-10. Archived from the original on 2009-06-25. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
- ^ "Nikki pysyy sensuurilistalla – valitus hylättiin". Tietokone (in Finnish). 2009-05-25. Archived from the original on 2012-05-26. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
- ^ "Lapsipornosuodatin: suodattaa kaikkea muuta paitsi lapsipornoa". eDome (in Finnish). 2008-02-19. Archived from the original on February 21, 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
- ^ "Krp hävisi kolme vuotta kestäneen kiistan nettiaktivistia vastaan". HS.fi (in Finnish). Sanoma. 23 May 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
- ^ "26.8.2013/2623 KHO:2013:136". Finlex. Edita Publishing Oy. 26 August 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
- ^ "Realitykings Review". aulaporn.com. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
External links
- Lapsiporno.info
- Suodatuslista sisällön kera - analysis of the filtering list
- EDRi: Finnish ISPs must voluntarily block access
- EFFI: Finnish Internet censorship
- Wikileaks: 797 domains on Finnish Internet censorship list, including censorship critic, 2008
- The Finnish law on filtering child pornography (in Swedish), Finlex
- The proposition and related documents (in Finnish), Parliament of Finland