Re: Indian censorship of porn now stupider

At one of the 2011 (if I am not mistaken) Nasscom Product Conclave, held in
Bangalore, I remember Vishal Gondal had challenged the VP Engineering
(search engine / overall don't remember), as part of a panel discussion,
saying that the biggest share of search and of internet traffic from India,
at night, is porn (& games -- of course, the speaker being Vishal).

If that is indeed true, and continues to be -- there may be more than
"implementability" of the order, responsible for not wishing to implement.
Porn, is one of the biggest internet-based industries in terms of revenue,
challenged only by ecommerce.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I believe the ISPs have already pushed back on the order, stating it to be
> vague.
>
>
> http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/new-order-on-porn-ban-vague-unimplementable-isps/articleshow/48370742.cms
>
> On 06-Aug-2015, at 12:26 AM, Arun Mehta <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> http://gizmodo.com/actually-those-857-porn-sites-in-india-are-essentially-1722225843
>
> India's Porn Ban Reversal Is Essentially Bullshit
>
>  ISPs were given the incredibly vague directive from the Communication and
> Technology ministry that they are “free not to disable any of the 857
> URLs,” provided the sites are child-porn free. There is, however, no
> mechanism in place for determining this kind of content.
>
> __
>
> So now, in fear of contempt of court, ISPs will actually require their
> employees to monitor porn sites. It's a tough job, looking at large numbers
> of porn video and images, but between the courts and the IT ministry, it's
> been decided who is going to employ the people to do it.
>
> The government is dragging its feet on Internet censorship, it is the
> courts -- and the vigilante idiots who go to them with such matters --
> taking the lead.
>
> Arun Mehta
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