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

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:40 PM, 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.
>

What this blanket ban would do is block the URLs leading to known/listed
porn websites, which may/maynot keep growing. However will it be able to
stop bootleg ? "Side-loading" of content is a huge phenomenon in our
country.

And then what about the porn print material ? Won't kids (& grownups)
switch to those alternative sources of titillation ?

Then there is the media which swims on the borders... staying just-within
the right side of the law (mostly). Question being, who defines what is
porn, what is art and what is realty-show ? One of India's highest selling
tabloids pushes enough sleaze to get young minds interested... not sure,
how many noticed the growing boldness of the lingerie ads (ex: Peri-peri
ads!)

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.
>

Sex education, is extremely important and ideally not be a copy-n-paste of
western form of sex-education, but take some local cultural sensitivities
into account. However, in the name of cultural sensitivities, showing 2
roses come together, serves no purpose. Recently, there was an article
about Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu, (at least near Chennai)
prohibiting male/female students from speaking to each other, and if found
speaking (even in non-romantic manner), would be fined and punished.

There is a fine balance required between awareness, sensitization,
cultural-context, and best left to experts and professionals, instead of
babus whose mentality hasn't kept pace with the changing times.


> 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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