{"id":19328,"date":"2013-03-08T09:55:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T14:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19328"},"modified":"2013-03-08T09:55:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T14:55:19","slug":"eu-politicians-perform-modern-day-king-canute-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/03\/08\/eu-politicians-perform-modern-day-king-canute-act\/","title":{"rendered":"EU politicians perform modern day King Canute act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yup. They&#8217;re standing up for equality on the internet by calling for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2013\/03\/08\/eliminating_gender_stereotypes_in_the_eu\/\" target=\"_blank\">a ban on online porn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MEPs are being urged to back a non-binding resolution that calls on the European Parliament to, in effect, ban pornography from the internet. A group of Euro politicos hope the web filth block will bring about a &#8220;genuine culture of equality&#8221; online.<\/p>\n<p>A motion was tabled this week by the EU&#8217;s committee on women\u2019s rights and gender equality. A report titled <em>Eliminating Gender Stereotypes in the EU<\/em> urged all members of the European Parliament to support the draft resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The panel stated that a policy to put an end to stereotypes portrayed in the media would &#8220;of necessity involve action in the digital field&#8221;. The committee added that the EU would be required to coordinate action to develop a &#8220;genuine culture of equality on the internet&#8221;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup. They&#8217;re standing up for equality on the internet by calling for a ban on online porn: MEPs are being urged to back a non-binding resolution that calls on the European Parliament to, in effect, ban pornography from the internet. A group of Euro politicos hope the web filth block will bring about a &#8220;genuine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10,28,53],"tags":[198,337,58,408,43],"class_list":["post-19328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-liberty","category-media","category-politics","tag-equalrights","tag-eu","tag-internet","tag-pornography","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-51K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19329,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19328\/revisions\/19329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}