Re: Not sure if this news is real, or a spoof...

The actual petition is here:
http://164.100.47.5/newcommittee/Petitions/Committee%20on%20Petitions/cyber%20e.pdf

Can also be accessed from the below link (Sr. No. 11)
http://164.100.47.5/newsite/press_release/pet_show.aspx





On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Vickram Crishna <v1clist-/[email protected]>wrote:

> Here's the operative portion of the press release (the language is
> entirely theirs, and linguists may spend years trying to understand what
> kind of creature invented it):
>
> /The petition is signed by Jainacharya Vijaya Ratnasundersuriji and three
> others and countersigned by Shri Vijay J. Darda, MP, Rajya Sabha.
>
> It has been stated in the petition that more than two-third of the India's
> population is below of 35 years. This large section of the population,
> which is the hope for the country's future, is getting digressed, distorted
> and distressed on account of the growing free sex culture through cyber
> pornography. Petitioners have further stated that Cyber pornography is
> creating an extremely bad effect on the adolescent children and even adults
> giving rise to various types of problems of psycho-physical nature,
> Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD), sexual deformities etc. This is also
> instrumental in raising incident of sexual exploitation of children. Today,
> besides computer and television, the mobile phone become a very handy
> source for adolescents to view such porn sites.
>
> 2. The petitioners have made a vehement prayer that steps be taken to
> check cyber pornography which is having an extremely bad effect on the
> country's youth as well as the adults leading to various types of social
> and medical problems as well as perpetration of crime. In this connection,
> they have advocated for amendment in IT, 2000, so as to make pornography on
> computer/mobile a crime
> entailing severe punishment to the producers, distributers and viewers of
> such sites. /
>
> About the only thing that may be verifiable in the petition is the names
> of the petitioners.
>
> Still, I wonder at the Acharya's certainty about cause and effect, not to
> mention his inability to lead by example, or even by teaching, that he
> should want to ask for unspecified changes in a bad law.
>
> Vickram
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>  ------------------------------
> * From: * Akshay Mishra <[email protected]>;
> * To: * sajan venniyoor <[email protected]>;
> * Cc: * india-gii <[email protected]>;
> * Subject: * Re: [india-gii] Not sure if this news is real, or a spoof...
> * Sent: * Fri, Jul 12, 2013 3:24:53 PM
>
>   I was part of a team developing a product for a telecom major in India
> few years back. It was a Internet + display developed in-house.
>
> After having completed everything, the board reviewed and there were
> comments like requiring redder red and brighter blues and other hues. After
> this insightful discussion, everybody was packed off except the marketing
> chap, the CEO and myself.
> The CEO then took the device went to a couple of porn sites - checked if
> he see moving images at the lowest resolution. After being satisfied this
> way, he went to discuss commercials after telling - this is the only thing
> that is viewed across the country and if hope to touch sufficient volumes
> we should ensure that the content that is desired is visible.
>
> I walked enlightened. :-)
>
> India might have to outsource re-production from the way these people talk
> about sex.
>
> -Akshay
>
>
>
>
> On 12 July 2013 20:40, sajan venniyoor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 11 July 2013 21:00, Sarbajit Roy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> There was a public notice today in some leading newspapers from Rajya
>>> Sabha.
>>> Persons watching cyber porn will be severely published. Law being put
>>> in place, objections/suggestions are invited from public to Amend IT
>>> Act.
>>> http://164.100.47.5/newcommittee/press_release/Press/Committee%20on%20Petitions/Cyber.pdf
>>
>>
>> According to the petitioner, internet porn leads to "dangerously
>> increasing" numbers of teenage pregnancies. This must be true, as data
>> suggests that "teen pregnancy in India is high with 62 pregnant teens out
>> of every 1,000 women. In comparison, 24 British teens get pregnant before
>> their 19th birthday while the figure is 42 in the US" *(2008 UNFPA
>> report). *
>>
>> At least half those pregnant Indian teens could be watching internet porn
>> with their men, as 47% of our girls are married off before 18.
>>
>> Sex education is also to blame. The petitioner believes that it helps
>> spread "free sex culture and increase in pornography" and leads to sticky
>> biology text books in school libraries or something.
>>
>> Sajan
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Does India-Gii wish to engage ?? CAN India-Gii engage ?
>>>
>>> On 7/11/13, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > I'd like to remind the list that the honorable minister insisted not
>>> > too long back that every Facebook and Orkut post and youtube video had
>>> > to be reviewed by a FB / Google employee before posting it to the web
>>> > to produce a safer web.
>>> >
>>> > He is a crusader par excellence for the safety of the web; his record
>>> > speaks volumes for how safe he has made the web. Without his earnest
>>> > efforts the web would have been a hive of filth and immorality.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
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