I don't know about your Iceland, but my Iceland is currently debating putting edge filters up to block "pornogaphy and other questionable content". I understand that the Internet here is just following our outdated laws which levy fines and threaten prison terms to anyone who purchases porn, but any country (even one as enlightened as ours) that contemplates edge router censorship is suspect to me.
But you know as well as I do that he didn't fall over his censorship dreams but Icesave. Another will come. That we even seriously, politically, considered this is scary in and by itself. Pirate Birgitta isn't enough to reassure me.
I would say that is a miscategorization of the election results. It's not so much that he was voted out as the electorate falling for the populism of Framsókn.
Of course a party of 3 out of 63 is not going to make big waves legislatively, but the center-right coalition wouldn't touch this issue. Hell, the previous administration didn't want to touch the issue either. Noise, that's all.
Fair enough. Maybe I am just a little too sensitive to the broad brush and heavy handed approach we seem to touch everything these days with. Frankly, I love my country, but I sometimes wonder if the Facebook "Iceland is so cool" movement isn't making us, internally, a little to complacent.
