{"id":19343,"date":"2013-03-09T10:37:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T15:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19343"},"modified":"2013-03-09T10:37:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T15:37:54","slug":"more-on-eu-proposal-to-ban-all-forms-of-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/03\/09\/more-on-eu-proposal-to-ban-all-forms-of-pornography\/","title":{"rendered":"More on EU proposal to ban all forms of pornography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>Telegraph<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/news\/9917189\/MEPs-to-vote-on-EU-ban-on-all-forms-of-pornography.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bruno Waterfield<\/a> follows up on yesterday&#8217;s story (linked <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/03\/08\/eu-politicians-perform-modern-day-king-canute-act\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Controversy has erupted over next Tuesday&#8217;s European Parliament resolution &#8220;on eliminating gender stereotypes in the EU&#8221;, meant to mark international women&#8217;s day, after libertarian Swedish MEPs from the Pirate Party spotted the call for a ban in the small print.<\/p>\n<p>While not legally binding, the vote could be the first step towards European legislation as the EU&#8217;s assembly increasingly flexes its political muscle within Europe&#8217;s institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal &#8220;calls on the EU and its member states to take concrete action on discrimination against women in advertising&#8230; [with] a ban on all forms of pornography in the media&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kartika Liotard, a Dutch left-wing feminist MEP, is seeking &#8220;statutory measures to prevent any form of pornography in the media and in advertising and for a ban on advertising for pornographic products and sex tourism&#8221;, including measures in the &#8220;digital field&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The MEPs are also demanding the establishment of state sex censors with &#8220;a mandate to impose effective sanctions on companies and individuals promoting the sexualisation of girls&#8221;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Telegraph, Bruno Waterfield follows up on yesterday&#8217;s story (linked here): Controversy has erupted over next Tuesday&#8217;s European Parliament resolution &#8220;on eliminating gender stereotypes in the EU&#8221;, meant to mark international women&#8217;s day, after libertarian Swedish MEPs from the Pirate Party spotted the call for a ban in the small print. While not legally [&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":[459,337,58,408],"class_list":["post-19343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-liberty","category-media","category-politics","tag-censorship","tag-eu","tag-internet","tag-pornography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-51Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19343","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=19343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19344,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19343\/revisions\/19344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}