Re: Indian censorship of porn now stupider
Kiritkumar Lathia <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Aug 2015 18:41:46 +0200
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The issue is not porn per second but paedophilia. In most countries, it is special cyber police who monitor and prosecute paedophiles. The supreme court has made the right decision that paedophilia should be banned and prosecuted to avoid exploitation of children and child sex. Then we have Netajis making the decisions to pass the buck! What a mess! On 6 Aug 2015 16:30, "Banibrata Dutta" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> India-gii mailing list >> India-gii-IAPFreCvJWP2/[email protected] >> https://lists.india-gii.org/mailman/listinfo/india-gii >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> India-gii mailing list >> India-gii-IAPFreCvJWP2/[email protected] >> https://lists.india-gii.org/mailman/listinfo/india-gii >> >> > > > -- > regards, > Banibrata > http://www.linkedin.com/in/bdutta > http://twitter.com/edgeliving > > _______________________________________________ > India-gii mailing list > India-gii-IAPFreCvJWP2/[email protected] > https://lists.india-gii.org/mailman/listinfo/india-gii > > _______________________________________________ India-gii mailing list India-gii-IAPFreCvJWP2/[email protected] https://lists.india-gii.org/mailman/listinfo/india-gii