SC Wants Porn-Free India

Mr.Kickass

In the zone
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court said it wanted immediate steps to block websites with pornographic content, especially those featuring children.

The court asked the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) about the steps which can be taken in this regard.

A bench headed by Justice BS Chauhan asked the Union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, of which DoT is a part, to file its response within three weeks

The court was hearing a petition filed by advocate Kamlesh Vaswani who pleaded that although watching obscene videos was not an offence, pornographic sites should be banned as they were one of the major causes behind crimes against women. “The absence of Internet laws encourages people to watch porn videos and over 20 crore videos or clippings are freely available in the market, which have been directly downloaded from the Internet or copied from video CDs,” the petition stated.

Legal experts say the Information Technology Act does not make it illegal to view adult porn but watching child porn is an offence and the law applies to “ whoever creates text or digital images, collects, seeks, browses, downloads’’ child porn.

Referring to Section 67B of the IT Act added in 2008, which prescribes punishment for involvement in sexually explicit online or electronic content that depicts children, cyber law expert Pavan Duggal said: “The problem is that this law has never been invoked yet and till date there has not been any conviction.” The Centre had earlier told the SC that it was difficult to block international porn sites and sought time to consult various ministries in order to find a solution. The court pulled up the Centre for taking such a long time in dealing with a serious issue while granting it time to devise a mechanism to block such sites, particularly those containing child pornography.

The petition pointed out that the sexual content that children are accessing today is far more graphic, violent, brutal, deviant and destructive, and has put the entire society in danger and also poses threats to public order in India.

Govt fails to curb child porn sites

India has of late witnessed a rise in cyber crime but the government, despite having the new IT Act in place, has largely been ineffective in tackling the problem. The Information Technology ministry, which safeguards India’s cyber space, has done little to take action against child porn sites.

The I& B ministry had earlier urged the IT ministry to take necessary steps to prevent the mushrooming of child porn sites. However, a DoT official said in the absence of technology and manpower, it has not been able to take adequate action.

“It is the Constitutional obligation of the government to block porn sites and it cannot get away merely on the ground that it does not have the necessary technology to fight against it,” cyber law expert Pawan Duggal said.

He added that countries like the US and China have constantly been fighting child pornography and they have succeeded in minimising it.

The IT ministry has also been lagging behind in developing an effective and secure network for the government’s use of the Internet. Ministers, top bureaucrats and others in the government largely use Gmail, Yahoo and other foreign webmail portals which have their servers abroad, exposing the risk of their mails being hacked

Notable Comments
Erose S said:
Harsh decision! How will our leaders spend time in assembly house?

Prakash said:
This is the same court that refused to change the Juvenile law allowing that Delhi rapist the so called under aged creep to escape the noose.

The most profound finding, :chinscratch:

The court was hearing a petition filed by advocate Kamlesh Vaswani who pleaded that although watching obscene videos was not an offence, pornographic sites should be banned as they were one of the major causes behind crimes against women

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srkmish

Ambassador of Buzz
Oh God. These people instead of focusing on issues that matter , invest their energies in useless pursuits. Sigh , a waste of human life
 

bubusam13

Human
Seriously, how will children learn ? Coz in Indian society, parents ain't gonna teach them anything about sex. I am not saying porns give sex education but all must agree we learned a lot watching porns. Further I don't think most rapists and many poor people have access to porns. WHat is the internet penetration in India ? Just 16%. And out of that how many watch porns ? People with no work put useless petition in the SC. Banning child pornography is well but not all porn. Coz even if you ban it, people will find some way to get it, which means you are forcing more people to adopt illegal means.
 

sandeep410

Journeyman
Its about child porn and not regular porn. Child pronography is banned all over the world and strict measures are taken to stop these.
You can still watch regular porn
 

funskar

Padawan
The man who filed the PIL would also have sawed porn otherwise how can he consider its porn or bollywood film:cool:

You should first ban sunyy leone,veena mallik rather than banning porn..

Sc should also ban these condoms ad n also ban dairy milk silk ad in which a boy keep licking girl's lip hand creamed with dairy milk silk:-D
 

SaiyanGoku

kamehameha!!
SC should ban all those saas bahu serials, Swayambar type marriage shows, Big boss, Bollywood movies, item songs, all bollywood songs, Honey Singh instead of banning normal porn. Child porn must be banned.
 

bubusam13

Human
Banning child porn I agree. But I have one question, how can he tell child porn encourages rape haven't he seen any. I must have have made him excited too. If you are reading this, it's just I am trying to analyze the aspects.
 

Extreme Gamer

僕はガンダム!
Vendor
The man who filed the PIL would also have sawed porn otherwise how can he consider its porn or bollywood film:cool:

You should first ban sunyy leone,veena mallik rather than banning porn..

Sc should also ban these condoms ad n also ban dairy milk silk ad in which a boy keep licking girl's lip hand creamed with dairy milk silk:-D

You don't need to watch porn to know what it is :|
 

Anorion

Sith Lord
Staff member
Admin
behind the times.
they are catching up on self shot underage photo distribution... rather taking progressive legal definition steps f0r that. k. cool.
wont stop rape over property dispute, which is bizarrely a leading cause in india

Child porn must be banned.

Banning child porn I agree. But I have one question, how can he tell child porn encourages rape haven't he seen any. I must have have made him excited too. If you are reading this, it's just I am trying to analyze the aspects.
ok. 1990s, magazines had ads of naked kids with a toothbrush and the concept was just that it's fresh.
for cp consumers, the pics/vids dont have to be sexualised, they do that bit of the work themselves. so basically any naked or non naked photo of a kid is fair game. kids crying or troubled is fair game. they dont have to be posed or well lit or provocative (whatever that means). there are plenty around innocently available material without having to resort to dubious underground channels. child porn cannot be banned for the same reason food porn cannot be banned.
 

prehistoricgamer

Q.C Passed. Tested. OK
The man who filed the PIL would also have sawed porn otherwise how can he consider its porn or bollywood film:cool:

You should first ban sunyy leone,veena mallik rather than banning porn..

Sc should also ban these condoms ad n also ban dairy milk silk ad in which a boy keep licking girl's lip hand creamed with dairy milk silk:-D

Not sure if trolling or serious. :facepalm:
 

dashing.sujay

Moving
Staff member
I don't know what is wrong in this decision.
But as its pretty cool here to bash govt/administrative decisions, whatever they be, so it is. Great.
 

deepakkrishnan

Broken In
^^ "Sawed" means cutting something

Saw is the past tense for see

And according to your sentence :- "The man who filed the PIL would also have sawed porn otherwise"

Corrected : "The man who filed the PIL, has seen porn otherwise ... "

My 2cents
 

a_k_s_h_a_y

Dreaming
ban porn..
lets us geeks make proxy websites for pr0n access.. with tons of ads, pop ups.. vpn services, software to bypass.
profit !
 
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