{"id":6188,"date":"2010-02-23T18:11:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=6188"},"modified":"2010-02-23T18:11:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:11:36","slug":"out-of-the-icelandic-disaster-comes-a-sign-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/02\/23\/out-of-the-icelandic-disaster-comes-a-sign-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Icelandic disaster comes a sign of hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/22\/business\/media\/22link.html\">Link by Link - A Vision of Iceland as a Haven for Journalists - NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the New York Times reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A banking scandal nearly bankrupted this tiny island nation (population: barely 300,000) little more than a year ago, but Iceland is considering a new vision: to become a haven for journalists and publishers by offering some of the most aggressive protections for free speech and investigative journalism in the world.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Web site explaining the proposal.\" href=\"http:\/\/immi.is\/\">The proposal<\/a>, the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, combines in a single piece of legislation provisions from around the world: whistle-blower laws and rules about Internet providers from the United States; source protection laws from Belgium; freedom of information laws from Estonia and Scotland, among others; and New York State&rsquo;s law to counteract &ldquo;libel tourism,&rdquo; the practice of suing in courts, like Britain&rsquo;s, where journalists have the hardest time prevailing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We would become the inverse of a tax haven,&rdquo; said Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of Parliament and a sponsor of the initiative. &ldquo;They are trying to make everything opaque. We are trying to make it transparent.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that deserves an unambiguous welcome. I can see file servers moving to Iceland from all over the world. And, no doubt, they hope people too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link by Link &#8211; A Vision of Iceland as a Haven for Journalists &#8211; NYTimes.com. As the New York Times reports: A banking scandal nearly<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/02\/23\/out-of-the-icelandic-disaster-comes-a-sign-of-hope\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}