March 20, 2010
The following articles have been tagged with "Pornography":
National: 15 Feb 10
A Swedish police officer is facing disciplinary action after a neighbour found child pornography on a memory stick the policeman had neglected to remove from a trouser pocket.
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Politics: 30 Jan 10
A Moderate Party politician in Stockholm has been arrested and charged with possessing child pornography material including a collection of films and photographs.
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Society: 18 Dec 09
A Swedish bank inadvertently published a link to a porn site in a magazine distributed to hundreds of thousands of Swedish school children.
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National: 2 Dec 09
A preschool teacher at an independent Christian school in Jönköping in south central Sweden is in custody on suspicions of having sexually abused several children.
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Society: 19 Nov 09
Surfing for porn, illegal file sharing, and online gambling are common activities for users of municipality-owned computers in Jönköping in central Sweden, a recent analysis shows.
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Politics: 2 Nov 09
Sweden's government is meeting on Monday to bring forward new legislation that will prohibit the viewing of child pornography and will establish strict age limit guidelines.
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National: 15 Oct 09
Two porn peddlers from northwestern Sweden have been convicted for selling pornographic films with exceedingly violent content.
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National: 8 Oct 09
A man from Skellefteå in northern Sweden who lost his job as a personal care assistant because of a part-time internship at a local porn shop has accused his former employer of discrimination.
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National: 7 Oct 09
Acts of violence against women accounted for more indictments against off duty police officers than any other crime in the last decade, a new study shows.
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Analysis & Opinion: 9 Sep 09
Swedish writers have stepped away from the serious business of writing books to do battle over the future of the Swedish novel. But perhaps they should get off their high horses and stick to the task, suggests The Local's Charlotte Webb.
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Analysis & Opinion: 3 Sep 09
The idea of feminist porn may be attractive to some but there is no reason for the state to cough up half a million kronor to fund its production, argues Beatrice Fredriksson, a member of the Moderate Party's youth organisation and author of the Anti-Feminist Initiative blog.
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Society: 1 Sep 09
'Feminist porn' movie Dirty Diaries, which received 500,000 kronor ($69,000) in public funding, is to premiere this Thursday in Stockholm.
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Science & Technology: 20 Aug 09
The Local has discovered that Chinese readers are unable to access "Sweden's News in English" as the site has been banned in the Asian country.
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Lifestyle: 13 Jul 09
The Local's Lydia Parafianowicz chats with Swedish musician Håkan Agnsäter, who has loaned out his auspicious poster collection to the Nordic Museum in Stockholm.
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Society: 9 Jul 09
Having settled a logo dispute with McDonald’s, an enterprising Swedish strip club owner is courting new controversy as he attempts to build an empire echoing that of the fast food giant.
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National: 9 Jul 09
A Swedish court has ruled that a 32-year-old father of two is guilty of having used threats to force more than 60 young girls to pose nude for him in front of their webcams.
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National: 6 Jul 09
A 39-year-old woman who sexually assaulted an underage boy and photographed the attack has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
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National: 17 Jun 09
One of the men arrested in Sweden following Tuesday’s pan-Scandinavian child porn raid has killed himself.
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National: 16 Jun 09
Police in four Nordic countries carried out a join action on Tuesday morning to break up a suspected child pornography ring.
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National: 5 Jun 09
A 43-year-old convicted paedophile has been arrested on suspicions that he molested a little girl while on temporary leave from court-ordered psychiatric care.
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National: 8 May 09
A Swedish man in his sixties has been arrested in Cambodia on suspicions of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy.
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National: 6 May 09
Sweden’s airport authority is reeling after an investigation into computer network problems revealed that several employees were surfing pornographic websites while on the job.
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National: 9 Apr 09
A Swedish policeman was sentenced on Thursday to 18 months in prison for sexually abusing two young brothers, media reported.
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Business & Money: 8 Apr 09
The Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) doesn't mind if you bare it all online so long as you pay your dues. Skatteverket is now on the hunt for internet strippers who fail to report their income.
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Society: 6 Apr 09
The Swedish national library will on Monday afternoon be reported to the police for the possession and distribution of child pornography.
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National: 26 Mar 09
A Swedish police officer who blew the whistle on a convicted paedophile’s plans to start a youth education centre has himself been fined for defamation.
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National: 18 Feb 09
As the Pirate Bay trial entered its third day on Wednesday, lawyers for the entertainment industry defended their compensation claims against the four defendants, whose lawyers in turn did their best to poke holes in the prosecution’s case.
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Society: 17 Feb 09
Berth Milton, head of the Private Media Group adult entertainment empire, has been hit with an 865 million kronor ($100 million) tax bill following a Swedish court judgment.
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Science & Technology: 5 Feb 09
Employees in Sweden’s government offices would be prohibited from visiting websites dealing with war, weapons, and terror, according to a new proposal.
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Society: 21 Jan 09
Sweden’s legacy of lax attitudes toward pornography has come back to haunt the country’s national library, which has been found to have large quantities of child pornography in its collection.
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Society: 6 Jan 09
Criminal organization Original Gangsters has assumed control of a controversial Swedish website that publishes the identity of sex offenders and has promised to increase the site's exposure.
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Society: 10 Dec 08
Blogging teenager Isabella 'Blondinbella' Löwengrip was Sweden's most sought after celebrity in 2008, according to a new list released by Google.
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Business & Money: 5 Dec 08
A Swedish pension fund that abides by Sharia laws has outperformed the Stockholm stock exchange since its launch in October.
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Society: 26 Nov 08
Swedish teenagers are resorting to increasingly perilous measures in order to get their hands on alcohol, according to police in Stockholm.
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National: 1 Nov 08
Queen Silvia wants to see current legislation to combat child pornography expanded. The queen has called for Sweden to follow neighbouring Denmark and Norway and make it illegal to look at child pornography.
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National: 6 Oct 08
Anders Eklund has been sentenced to life in prison for the murders of Engla Juncosa Höglund and Pernilla Hellgren.
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National: 1 Oct 08
A Swedish man acquitted of rape charges after he filmed himself having sex with a 14-year-old girl is set to receive 157,000 kronor ($22,500) in compensation for being wrongly accused.
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Analysis & Opinion: 1 Oct 08
Pirates, pioneers, or petty thieves? Majsan Boström meets Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, two of the leading figures from file-sharing giant The Pirate Bay.
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Society: 9 Sep 08
A 40-year-old man from Medelpad in northern Sweden has been convicted for gross slander for secretly putting nude photos of his wife on pornographic websites.
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National: 8 Aug 08
A convicted rapist has been refused compensation for an alleged rights violation when he was denied access to pornography in his cell.
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National: 31 Jul 08
A man from the south of Sweden is requesting a total of 280,000 kronor ($46,000) in compensation from the state for having been deprived of his liberty for 100 days.
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National: 18 Jul 08
Court documents released in connection with murder charges filed against Anders Eklund reveal in startling detail how the 42-year-old truck driver killed 10-year-old Engla Juncosa Höglund.
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National: 18 Jul 08
Murder charges have been filed against 42-year-old Anders Eklund, the truck driver accused of killing 10-year-old Engla Juncosa Högland in April.
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Society: 2 Jul 08
A number of suspected child porn offenders may escape trial as Swedish police, despite training 100 specialized staff, struggle to get through their caseload.
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National: 16 May 08
A 44-year-old man is to face trial next week on charges of selling his mentally disabled young wife as a sex slave on at least 100 occasions.
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National: 13 May 08
Law enforcement authorities carried out a series of coordinated raids across Sweden on Tuesday against suspected paedophiles.
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National: 13 May 08
Anders Eklund, the 42-year-old man who has confessed to the murder of 10-year-old Engla Juncosa Höglund, is also believed by police to have raped the girl.
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Business & Money: 12 May 08
Porn king Berth Milton has sold his shares in AIK Football, reports the Veckans Affärer magazine.
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Society: 22 Apr 08
A short film collection shot on mobile phones by female directors seeking to create queer and feminist pornography is set to receive 350,000 kronor ($59,000) in Swedish cultural subsidies.
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National: 13 Apr 08
The 42-year-old man suspected of abducting 10-year-old Engla Höglund will be interrogated by officers from the National Investigation Department while members of the National Home Guard continued searching for the missing girl.
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National: 11 Apr 08
The 42-year-old man suspected of abducting 10-year-old Engla Höglund near Hedemora in Dalarna was remanded in custody on Friday.
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National: 2 Apr 08
A 59-year-old man in Sweden accused of having two to three million child porn pictures has been sentenced to six months in jail.
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National: 12 Feb 08
The films contained pornographic content that Swedish film censors considered too violent.
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National: 11 Feb 08
Lesbians cannot be prevented from purchasing puppies in Sweden, a court has ruled.
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National: 11 Feb 08
The method involves cooperation between police, internet service providers, and anti-child porn groups.
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Society: 30 Jan 08
An exhibition of graphic sex photos by an American artist have caused a split between politicians in a Swedish town.
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Society: 3 Dec 07
Dozens of police officers have been caught watching hardcore porn at work, in some cases over a period of many hours.
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Society: 30 Nov 07
Two women who want to be allowed to go topless in the nation's swimming pools have had their case rejected by Sweden's equality watchdog.
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National: 22 Oct 07
An IT expert who resigned last week from the Swedish Police Service is suspected of having used his home as a brothel.
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National: 20 Oct 07
Swedish porn magnate Berth Milton has been ordered to pay back taxes for ten years in which he claimed he was not resident in the country. The total could amount to 650 million kronor.
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Society: 10 Oct 07
Search engine giant Google has blocked access to video footage of four masked men who vandalized the photo exhibition 'A history of sex' at an art gallery in Lund on Friday. The company said the video contained "too much porn".
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Science & Technology: 29 Aug 07
Swedish prosecutors have launched an investigation into suspected child pornography made available via website The Pirate Bay. Administrators allowed the images to remain available for nearly two weeks, but they are not suspects in the case.
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National: 18 Aug 07
A 40-year-old man from Sundsvall who has worked with children for 20 years been charged with sexually abusing children, exploiting children for sexual images and serious child pornography offences.
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Society: 22 Jul 07
A few years ago 50,000 images of child pornography would be considered a major haul by police, enough to classify the crime as serious. Today, millions of pictures must be seized - and even that might not be enough.
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National: 12 Jul 07
A 16-year-old boy from Värmland in western Sweden has been arrested in connection with the rape of a young girl.
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Science & Technology: 12 Jul 07
The Swedish police has joined forces with image search company Picsearch as part of its fight against child pornography on the internet.
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National: 7 Jul 07
File sharing site The Pirate Bay could be blocked after Swedish police alleged that it harbours child pornography. The owners deny the charge, describing the police's strategy as "an abuse".
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Society: 4 Jul 07
Parents are being advised by police not to put their holiday photos on the internet as as there is a major risk that they will be accessed by paedophiles.
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Society: 25 Jun 07
Sweden's convicted rapists are entitled to have pornography in their cells, the Supreme Administrative Court has judged.
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National: 19 Jun 07
Swedish police brought in eight people for questioning on Tuesday in connection with their suspected involvement in a child pornography ring.
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Society: 10 Jun 07
A new corps of 70 Swedish police officers are to be given special training to deal with child pornography, it has been announced.
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Society: 4 Jun 07
Ten percent of those Swedes who have travelled outside Europe in the past three years say they have seen signs that fellow tourists were abusing children. Most say they did not report the abuse.
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National: 25 May 07
A 43-year-old man has been arrested in Gothenburg after he tried to pay a 15-year-old boy for sex.
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Society: 23 Apr 07
For once Feminist Initiative spokeswoman Gudrun Schyman will be asking the questions rather than answering them as she gets her own talk show on TV8.
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National: 7 Feb 07
A record child porn raid in Austria has identified 50 Swedes who have viewed banned images online. But Swedish law might make prosecution difficult.
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Society: 1 Feb 07
Google has a number of criteria it applies before allowing news site to appear as part of its Google News service. Somehow Sweden's National Democrats managed to slip through the net.
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Society: 22 Jan 07
Large quantities of child pornography have been discovered in a raid in Sörmland county. Police believe that the haul is the largest ever in Sweden, but campaigners say still not enough is being done.
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National: 11 Jan 07
A woman who filmed while her husband raped their teenage daughter has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by Helsingborg district court.
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Society: 19 Dec 06
Swedish authorities have failed to tackle the problem of Swedes engaging in child sex tourism in foreign countries. "State needs to do much more," says agency.
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National: 13 Dec 06
Alpine enthusiasts typing Åre2007 into their address bars have been exposed to much more than ski lifts and giant slalom in the Swedish mountains, after a pornography site hijacked their name.
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Society: 27 Nov 06
Pornographic magazines should be banned from Sweden's prisons and remand centres, the prison service says. The reason: it is insulting for female prison officers.
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Politics: 10 Nov 06
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt has reacted angrily to revelations that he owns shares in a company that has placed money in weapons, tobacco and pornography.
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National: 8 Nov 06
A mother sexually abused her daughter while the girl's father filmed, a court in Malmö has heard. Both the mother and the father deny the accusations against them.
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Politics: 13 Sep 06
Sweden's fledgling feminist party is for the first time setting its sights on parliament in a general election on Sunday, convinced the Scandinavian country does not deserve its reputation as a bastion of gender equality.
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Society: 13 Aug 06
More than half of Swedish first-time voters want to ban pornography, according to a new survey.
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Society: 28 Jul 06
A man in Helsingborg has been given eight years in jail for sexually abusing six children over a period of more than a decade.
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Society: 5 Jul 06
A student who read a sex story to a children's group last year has had his sentence reduced after a court decided the incident did not amount to sexual molestation.
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Lifestyle: 13 May 06
Sweden’s reputation as the first country of filth is one of those lingering stereotypes. Like high taxes. But whilst there’s no denying the latter, what truth really is there in the triple X typecast? The Local’s Christine Demsteader investigates.
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Society: 10 May 06
Police in 13 EU countries and the US raided around 150 homes on Wednesday morning in a strike against an international online paedophile network.
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Society: 29 Apr 06
The Swedish Prison Service is appealing against a ruling that would allow a convicted rapist to receive pornography in jail.
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National: 27 Apr 06
Police and prosecutors involved in the trial of a 31 year old suspected paedophile have found evidence that child pornography films which have been distributed internationally were filmed in Sweden.
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Society: 25 Apr 06
Ten percent of Swedish boys look at pornography every day, according to new research. Nearly all have seen it at some point, and over 4 percent say they have seen child pornography.
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Society: 24 Mar 06
TV4 has admitted that a reporter herself set up a live internet sex show featured in a documentary on Monday. There were no real clients around, according to the 19-year old girl who took part.
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National: 20 Mar 06
The man was a paid informer of the Swedish police. But according to the prosecution, he was one of Europe's leading distributors of child porgnography. His trial opened today.
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Lifestyle: 24 Feb 06
Lukas Moodysson's latest film Container was part of the official selection of the Panorama section at the Berlin Film Festival. The movie - "a black and white silent film with sound" goes on general release in Sweden on March 10th.
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Business & Money: 12 Jan 06
Direct phone calls and advertising through Swedish letterboxes are more popular than ever as sales techniques. But with a million phone numbers now on an industry block list, the number of Swedes to target is shrinking rapidly.
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Society: 30 Nov 05
A 32 year old drama student who read pornographic stories to a group of six year olds in a project has been found guilty of sexual abuse. But the head of a Swedish sex education organisation says the case "has been blown out of proportion".
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Society: 25 Nov 05
Filters introduced in April to block access to web sites showing child pornography appear to be working, say the police. But the number of access attempts is far higher than expected.
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Politics: 1 Nov 05
New laws are needed to stop internet grooming of children, says Justice Minister Thomas Bodström. He also wants to crack down on child pornography, he tells the Social Democrat conference in Malmö.
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Society: 26 Oct 05
Hundreds of Swedes have been spammed with emails containing child pornography, police say. The emails started coming in the last week, and there's little you can do to stop them.
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"Recently I’ve been thinking of how much mental space we could create if we collectively agreed to get rid of stereotypes. All of those small compartments we walk around with in our heads would suddenly be cleared away and we’d feel so much lighter. Just think of all of that space for real new perceptions..." READ »
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