type website industry mass media founded 1998 headquarters sweden key people jan axelsson number of employees unknown website flashback.se flashback media group ab is a swedish media company that publishes magazines books websites and also started sweden s biggest discussion forum in may 2000 . history edit flashback originates from the local fanzine dead or alive founded and published on 25 february 1983 by then 14 year old jan axelsson in norrk ping . it developed into multiple projects focusing on different aspects of subcultures ; mainly punk and changed its name to flashback in february 1993 . 1 flashback s website was first published in june 1995 as a big supporter of copyleft . the company publishes scandinavia s biggest neutral newsletter with over 120 000 subscribers on a monthly basis . the proclaimed goal is to express underground opinions . the website has on multiple occasions been shut down by authorities and has been fined hundreds of thousands of sek . after a trial in 2002 it became illegal for flashback to run a discussion forum in sweden as according to the swedish 1998 law of responsibility regarding electronic message boards all posts on swedish internet discussion boards need to be reviewed by an appointed person who can be prosecuted in case there is a breach of the press law . 2 flashback media group ab and jan axelsson each were fined 400 000 sek on probation and were forced to pay the trial costs of 250 000 sek . 3 flashback closed down the forum in 2002 . it opened again in 2003 . between 2003 and 2010 it was based in england and owned by flashback enterprises ltd. since 2010 it is based in new york usa and it is owned by flashback international inc. flashback forum has 339 different sub forums ranging from baking bread and cookies politics and lifestyle to the more controversial forums such as integration and immigration drugs and pedophilia . as of 6 august 2016 the forum has about 1 046 000 members who have posted more than 54 million posts making it the largest forum in scandinavia . 4 5 in october 2010 flashback media group ab started travel forum a travel website with articles guides reviews and discussions of travel related content . travel forum is today one of the major travel sites in sweden . 6 flashback media group also own a swedish erotic literature site . 7 references edit about flashback . sveriges f rbud av flashback forum fyller 10 r . flashback.se . 2012 12 15 . retrieved 2013 01 04 . flashback.se flashback is illegal in sweden in swedish . http www.flashback.org nyheter24 2012 09 02 . nyheter24 presenterar intervjuserien flashback talks . nyheter24.se . retrieved 2013 01 04 . flashback.org 2013 11 02 . travel forum is today one of the major travel sites in sweden . flashback.org . sexnovell 2015 04 19 . sexnovell . sexnovell.se . retrieved 2013 01 04 . external links edit flashback.se swedish flashback.org swedish travel forum swedish retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title flashback media group & oldid 744099378 categories companies of swedeninternet forumshidden categories cs1 swedish language sources sv articles with swedish language external links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages svenska edit links this page was last modified on 13 october 2016 at 03 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view