Karin Maj Britt Margareta Theorin (born December 22, 1932, Göteborg), commonly known as Maj Britt Theorin, is a Swedish social democratic politician and diplomat. She served as a member of the Parliament of Sweden from 1971 to 1995, and as a Member of the European Parliament from 1995 to 2004. She was President of the International Peace Bureau from 1992 to 2000, following Bruce Kent.[1] She has also served as Swedish Ambassador for Disarmament.
As an MP in the 1980s, she proposed that private ownership of satellite dishes be prohibited in Sweden.[2] The intention was to stop Swedish citizen from watching commercial television channels from abroad and thus preserve the Swedish state television media monopoly.