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Obscene art gets attention in India as SC seeks government’s views on blocking of pornographic sites
TT Correspondent |  |  17 Apr 2013

Taking serious note of the pornographic sites, especially the child pornography which has resulted in the sex crimes against women and children in the country, the Supreme Court on Monday sent notice to Information and Technology, Information ministry along with the Broadcasting and Home Affairs ministries seeking their views on the ban on porn sites.

This was in response to the petition filed by one Kamlesh Vaswani an Indore-based advocate which said that in the porn material freely available on these sites is responsible for crimes against women.

The petition said that over over 20 crore porn videos or clippings are freely available in the market, which are directly been downloaded through internet or other video CDs.

Though pornography in India is illegal, due to ineffective lawpornographic materials are easily available in public places. Softcore and hardcore pornography movies/photos are easily accessible through magazines, films, or Internet. The law states that possessing and watching pornographic materials is legal, but production and distribution are prohibited.

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

Child pornography in India is illegal. In February 2009, the Parliament of India passed the Information Technology Bill," banning the creation and transmission of child pornography. The bill enables India's law enforcement agencies to take strict action against those seeking child pornography. For example, browsing for child pornography on theInternet can lead to a 5 year term of imprisonment and a 1 lakh fine.

Section 67 of the "Information Technology Act" deals with "publishing obscene information in electronic form". This law has been interpreted to criminalize the posting of pornographic content online. However, accessing "obscene" content privately is not illegal. The IT Act was amended by the Parliament on 2008, and Section 67B was inserted which criminalizes browsing, downloading, creation, and publishing child pornorgraphy. Child anime porn was not explicitly criminalized.

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17 Apr 2013(IST)  
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Is the government sure about this banning process will help to lessen the numbers of rape? Also banning the online websites from broadcasting such sites going to help? There are other medias in which this thing is available how is the government going to stop that? Also who says that pornographic movies initiate a rape? Almost all teens, adults in their prime and later watch this do all of the rape the first girl they see? The problem is not all this it is the severity of the punishment a rapist receives, at times the girl and her family never receive the justice they deserve and so rapists get more confident in occurring the crime. Also if the fact that few websites initiate a rape then where do you find a website to rob a bank? Or on how to kill a person? These crimes still happen right? Saying some like that is totally being biased towards a whole working community. However we may look at that it is still something that someone works and earns their living. A job is a job how and whatever they do doesn't matter it is legal and in the law. Why aren't we banning the production of tobacco products? It's written on the side of each box, packet and everything even in movies now, smoking or chewing of tobacco is bad for health and we still let that happen but we ban something like this? When there is no such hard evidence that pornographic websites initiate such tendencies. It maybe not right but still not right to implement either.
Posted By :- Real Indian
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Infact there are certain popular newspapers like Times of India which in its editorials include semi nude pictures. It is difficult to open them in a public place. They print such material publicly. Such magazines and papers should also be warned or banned.
Posted By :- Indian
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Comparison of tobacco and porn sites is not proper. While it may be true that there may not be intrinsic relationship between such sites and crime against women, child, the fact of the matter is easy availability of such materials at dirt cheap cost may vitiate the environment. Today internet has become pervasive in our life and male child are equally vulnerable for its abuse. Therefore, there is no harm in experimenting the complete ban on porn sites and then watch the improvement in the society. After all, such material does not add to any productivity to the nation as a whole. In fact, banning such contents would lead to more fruitful availability of time.
Posted By :- Dhirendra Verma
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