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. Therefore, either the sites do not contain child pornography or the NBI has not informed the local authorities. 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. ĮFFI has demanded NBI to explain why a website that only contained articles and a list of blocked addresses was censored. However, is hosted in Finland and does not contain any child pornographic material. The Finnish law allows the police to list sites that fulfill the two criteria of containing child pornographic material (defined as being images that depict children in sexual context) and that are hosted abroad. The police have refused to comment on which websites are censored and why, but chief inspector Lars Henriksson of the NBI stated that the list includes websites that contain at least one image that is deemed child porn as well as websites that contain a link to such site. On February 12, 2008, after customers of the Finnish ISP Elisa could not access the website, it was found that NBI had added to their filtering list. Finnish internet censorship critic blacklisted.
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Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFI) have noticed that the blacklist includes non-pornographic websites also, including a Windows advice forum, a computer repair service and the Internet Initiative Japan server nn.iij4u.or.jp that, among others, hosts websites for a violin factory, a doll store and a hearing aid manufacturer. Analyzing the address list, Nikki also noted that the first three Google search results for " gay porn" are censored. To prove his claims, Nikki published the results of his research on his website, including a list of the blocked addresses he found. By January 7, 2008, he had scanned through 100,000 websites and wrote on that of the 785 censored sites the large majority contained in fact legal pornography. Nikki then wrote a program that scanned through adult websites to find out how the list works. Although the filtering is optional, Viestintäministeriö, the Ministry of Communications, has threatened to make it mandatory should service providers not implement it voluntarily. The website focuses on the internet censorship in Finland, its effectiveness, and the issues and problems related to it.īy December 2007, following changes in Finnish legislation, Keskusrikospoliisi, the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), had compiled a secret blacklist of websites that it deemed to contain child pornography and sent it to Finnish Internet service providers.
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The website was founded and is maintained by software developer, researcher and Internet activist Matti Nikki, who previously attracted international attention by analyzing Sony BMG's digital rights management rootkit that the company's products automatically installed on users' computers. (" child porn info") is a Finnish website opposed to Internet censorship. This announcement can be seen when trying to access the site.