Committee to Protect Bloggers » Finland http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org Free speech for bloggers worldwide Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:44:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 en Finnish Blogger Gets Two Years http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2008/06/01/finnish-blogger-gets-two-years/ http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2008/06/01/finnish-blogger-gets-two-years/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:03:48 +0000 Curt http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2008/06/01/finnish-blogger-gets-two-years/ Finish blogger Seppo Lehto has been sentenced to two years in prison, according to the Finnish site Kirnu. His crime appears to have been criticism of several of his country’s parliamentarians.

Google has interposed a warning to Lehto’s blog, saying, “Some readers of this blog have contacted Google because they believe this blog’s content is objectionable.”  No idea what the blog’s about from the language, but I imagine, given the douche-in-a-bomber-jacket-giving-a-piggy-salute photo, if he didn’t belong to the girlfriendless horde of European nazi douchebag bloggers.

Well, who knows? He’s probably another tool. (And if he is a would-be nazi, would someone snowshoe in and give him a shot in the nuts for me?) But now that Finland has joined such moral luminaries as Singapore, Saudi Arabia and Iran in throwing such tools into the clink, the great white north will no doubt shine forth as the New Jerusalem.

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