Drew Wilson
December 28th, 2008, 10:06 PM
The Romanian Authority for Communication (ANC) requested ISPs last week to block the access to 40 websites hosted in Romania, considering they don't meet the criteria imposed by article 7 of Law no.196/2003 on preventing and fighting pornography.
Article 7 of the law states that "the natural and legal persons creating pornographic sites are obliged to password them, and the access to these will be allowed only after paying a fee per using minute, established by the creator of the site and declared at the fiscal bodies."
However, five years later after the law was adopted, no specific fee is foreseen in any normative act.
According to the ANC press release, its investigation revealed that "these websites, hosted in Romania, did not observe the legal requirements on access granted by a password (in most cases, even the minimum warning on the age of persons allowed to access them was absent) and did not request the payment of a fee per minute of use."
More... (http://www.edri.org/edri-gram/number6.24/anc-blocks-isp-pornography-romania)
It's starting to get to the point where it's faster just to name countries that haven't gone totalitarian yet.
Article 7 of the law states that "the natural and legal persons creating pornographic sites are obliged to password them, and the access to these will be allowed only after paying a fee per using minute, established by the creator of the site and declared at the fiscal bodies."
However, five years later after the law was adopted, no specific fee is foreseen in any normative act.
According to the ANC press release, its investigation revealed that "these websites, hosted in Romania, did not observe the legal requirements on access granted by a password (in most cases, even the minimum warning on the age of persons allowed to access them was absent) and did not request the payment of a fee per minute of use."
More... (http://www.edri.org/edri-gram/number6.24/anc-blocks-isp-pornography-romania)
It's starting to get to the point where it's faster just to name countries that haven't gone totalitarian yet.