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The Indian government has ordered a large number of porn websites to be blocked, creating an uproar among users and civil rights groups in the country. The Department of Telecommunications has issued orders for the blocking of 857 websites serving pornography, said two persons familiar with the matter, who declined to be named.
Section 69 (A) of India’s Information Technology Act allows the government to order blocking of public access to websites and other information through computer resources, though this section appears to be designed to be invoked when a threat is perceived to the sovereignty and integrity of India, security of the state, friendly relations with foreign states or public order.
“The government cannot on its own block private access to pornography under current statutes,” said Pranesh Prakash, policy director of the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore. “Parliament has not authorized the government to ban porn on its own... However, courts have in the past ordered specific websites to be blocked for specific offences such as defamation, though as far as I know not for obscenity,” Prakash added. Viewing pornography privately is not a crime in the country, though its sale and distribution is an offense.
Some porn websites were still accessible through certain Internet service providers on Monday, as some ISPs took some time to implement the order. “All the 857 websites will be blocked by all ISPs today,” said a source in the ISP industry, who requested anonymity. “As licensees we have to follow the orders.” The government could not be immediately reached for comment.
Reports of the blocks created a furore among Internet users in the country, who criticized the move on Reddit, Twitter and other social media.
(Score: 2, Informative) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday August 04 2015, @07:21AM
I wish you were right. India of today has got nothing to do with Hinduism from 1000 years ago, as it has been popularized in the West. Kama Sutra was a lost textbook, before British translated the sexy chapters and popularized it. Khajuraho [wikipedia.org] was a set of temples barely surviving the onslaught of Muslim "converters"(?) and were of no value to the Indians living under Muslim rule for 600 years. It was a taboo. It still is.
Indians are still struggling to understand what to do with their culture 60 years after British left. 1000 years of slavery (800 under Muslims and 200 under British) has basically stripped away everything HINDU out of Hinduism. It is only by luck that India hasn't turned into another Afganistan and Khajurao into another Bamiyan [wikipedia.org]. No thanks to USA, which still funds terrorists in Pakistan. While some in the younger generation have accepted that it is better to become western than to keep fighting for supremacy of yet another re-invented definition of Hinduism, the older generation of people are too focused on correcting the nation and building next China. And because of history of slavery, old people still hold a lot of command over the youth.
What to do? America with its vast land and resources is rather content with every fucking block being situated a mile apart and won't let people stay in its country. What chances do the educated class of India have but to be slaughtered with mostly uneducated, poor and powerless having majority.