Censorship in Finland

During World War I, Russian censorship was carried out in the following cities: Helsinki, Tornio, Kuopio, Vaasa, Pori, Tampere, Turku, Rauma, Oulu and Viipuri.

This ban concerned mostly pre-war and wartime propaganda works which were considered anti-Soviet, but the books remained in free circulation in the second-hand market.

During the period of Finlandization, major Finnish publishers tended to avoid books that were thought to risk Soviet displeasure.

[2] In 2006, a new copyright law known as Lex Karpela set some restrictions on publishing information regarding copy protection schemes.

At September 2008, problems with accuracy continued, when the website of the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web W3C was briefly blacklisted as child pornography by mistake.

[5] In 2008, a government-sponsored report considered establishing similar filtering in order to curb online gambling.

In 2017, Finland fell to third place following an incident dubbed "Sipilägate": Prime Minister Juha Sipilä had pressured the national broadcaster Yle when it had covered a possible conflict of interests concerning him.

RWB Secretary General Christophe Deloire cited Finland losing the first place as the most important development in press freedom surveyed by the Index that year.