Think the bankers ripping them off had something to do with it?
"Iceland to strengthen its media protections; Lawmakers hope shielding speech draws businesses" by Sylvia Hui, Associated Press | June 18, 2010
LONDON — Iceland’s parliament voted yesterday to create what supporters hope will be the world’s strongest protections for free speech and journalism, passing measures intended to make this Nordic nation a safe haven for investigative reporting.
The legislation — passed unanimously with only a single abstention — requires the government to draft regulations changing Icelandic law to strengthen journalistic source protection and shield reporters from foreign libel judgments.
You know, the kind of crap Israel is demanding of all allied, 'er, western governments (let's not get ahead of ourselves until the attack on Iran is launched).
And it is not about truth, it is just about criticism of Israel. It is simply not allowed on certain levels, and its proliferation as people see what a demonic state Zionist-controlled Israel has become the worse it gets for them.
Thus, the call for earplugs for the masses by censoring or shutting down the web.
And from what I've seen and read, Obomber may be a bit thin-skinned as well -- never a good quality in a leader. Bush was an a**hole, but he had a thicker hide.
And Joe Lieberman of all people (wasn't he a vociferous McCain supporter) is calling for the ability of Obama to pull the plug?
I'll tell you this: they will never win me back even if all I received was MSM s***. Once you see through the code words and agenda-pushing, you recognize it for what it is.
I'll forgo the other colorful symbols and links today. You readers deserve a break.
HOWEVER, I do RESERVE MY RIGHT to FREE SPEECH SPEW in PAINFUL RAGE at a later time (not today) if required!
While the measures were mainly aimed at improving the nation’s own transparency, Iceland hopes to attract Internet-based media and data centers that would use the country as a base of global free speech.
“This is changing the way the world sees us,’’ said lawmaker Brigitte Jonsdottir, who said that strengthening free speech laws would restore credibility to a nation mired in an economic crisis linked to bad debt and murky deals.
BY GOD it WAS BECAUSE of the BANKSTERS!!!!!
Bolstering the media laws gained traction with Icelanders after the country’s devastating economic collapse in 2008, a crisis that many in Iceland said showed that relations between government and the media had become too cozy.
I am typing from the WORLD'S CHAMPEEN!!!
Foreign reporters were the ones who uncovered much of the corruption in the small island nation’s financial system, prompting calls for improved access to information access and more protection for whistle-blowers.
Yeah, when an OUT-of-TOWN or OTHER PAPER SCOOPS you it AIN'T GOOD!!
“It’s extremely valuable to us as we are trying to establish trust again,’’ she said....
That is a HARD THING to COME BY these days when GOVERNMENT is involved, but I APPRECIATE and APPLAUD the EFFORT, Icelanders!!!!!
Joshua Benton, of Harvard University’s Nieman Journalism Lab, said he could envisage a situation in which some media organizations move their Internet servers to Iceland to prevent them from being searched or seized....
“In so many places these sorts of regulations are driven by powerful players,’’ he said.
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Just thought I would toss that in there.
“It’s a good thing that in this case the driving force is something that seems a bit more idealistic.’’
How SAD that TRUTH must be an IDEALISTIC GOAL that is SO DIFFICULT to UNCOVER and EXPOSE, 'eh, WORLD?
