India Blocks Over 800 Adult Websites

William Robinson writes: The government of India has blocked over 800 adult websites through a secret order. “Free and open access to porn websites has been brought under check,” N.N. Kaul, a spokesman at the department of telecommunications said. “We don’t want them to become a social nuisance.” The ban has provoked debates in the country about extreme and unwarranted moral policing by the government. The action came after the Supreme Court of India had refused to ban porn sites in India.

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Yeah, great

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's take away a perfectly safe outlet for sexual frustration in a country with a pervasive rape problem, fucking brilliant.

Re:Yeah, great

[Anonymous Coward]

Nice straw-man, bootlicker. There's zero legitimate reason for blocking pornographic sites featuring of-age, consenting adults. It's not about morality, it's about control of the populace. Glad to see you're all on board with the thought-police, though. Maybe the G-man will give you a doggie treat.

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[Anonymous Coward]

I know it's a rite of passage for posters to chip in without knowing what they'er talking about, but holy smokes! You really jumped in head-first. Let's all sit back and thank our lucky stars you're not in a position of power, thinking like yours is just a couple steps away from mandatory castration for anything born male.

Re:Yeah, great

[Anonymous Coward]

The good news is that people figured out sex long before there were things like TV and the Internet. In fact, I think our cave-dwelling predecessors had it figured out too. In fact, if they hadn't then we'd be pretty boned right now - boned for a lack of boners. Trying to remove all notion of sex and sexuality from the population won't achieve what they think it will achieve. Worse, it might breed ignorance. Especially amongst the teenage population deliberately shrouding the whole subject in mystery will lead to a lot less shrouding in the bedroom, which will lead to a lot more teenage pregnancies and rampant STD infections.

Banning porn is stupid. There's nothing to gain here.

Re:Yeah, great

[circletimessquare]

thank you, that's a valid clarification

i am aware some countries outlaw fantasy cartoon child porn as well as actual real child porn

while real child porn should never be legal and should always be blocked, i think that fantasy drawings and cartoons do have valid cathartic use and should be legal

also, the legal status quo against fantasy content precludes the tactic of honey pots

outlawing the fantasy content drives it underground, while allowing it to flow freely allows the authorities to track profile, and locate consumers of it

as they should

because viewing this material indicates a proclivity that allows us to find pedophiles

and pedophiles should never be able to exist in open society without monitoring

like drug addiction, we should not incarcerate pedophiles, we should treat them as having a healthcare issue. pedophiles, once identified, should be treated, not jailed

and closely watched nonetheless

because like how valid porn between consenting adults does not prevent all rape, only minimize it, fantasy child porn would also only mitigate child abduction and victimization, not prevent all of it

being a pedophile marks you as fundamentally incompatible with human society in a truly horrible way. i feel sorry for pedophiles, i'd rather have painful cancer than be a pedophile, it is a truly life destroying, life hobbling vile affliction

because to be a pedophile means you have a sexual proclivity which immediately elicits the completely valid parental response and societal response to protect their children. some of that instinct outside the realm of law will find immediate and violent impulse, and even large sympathy for that violent impulse. the imperative to protect children is strong, as it should be, and pedophilia is a valid threat. but even in the realm of legality, society has to strongly consider the potential for grave harm that a pedophile represents in open society. a pedophile is truly screwed in many ways, and there is little empathy for them

pedophilia, like homosexuality, is merely a genetic aberration in the formation of sexual attraction. but while homosexuality is fine because it involves consenting adults, pedophilia will never be ok because it involves one party that can never consent (in an informed way, not a bullshit "i gave you toys and candy and you said 'ok' to my suggestion of sex" because a child can never give informed consent on the topic)

i think maybe in the future we can treat pedophilia with child shaped robots

but even so, treatment will never prevent all pedophiles from hurting real children. and therefore society must always view them in a very critical, suspicious, dim light. because they always represent the potential for grave harm

i think if i were a pedophile i'd choose self-banishment to greenland or something. having a strong sense of morality is only a guide, not a cloak of protection, we all have moments of weakness, and i would never want a moment of weakness of mine to result in harm to a child

truly a life-crippling, monstrous affliction

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[circletimessquare]

i would never think a country like britain would fall victim to this sort of censorial nonsense, and it is a troubling development

however, i don't buy the argument it is because of feminism

you need to understand that feminism there is the older valid causes against the maltreatment of women and the removal of their rights. which used to be far worse in the west. and is indeed still a major problem in the world, especially in areas like india and islamic countries

but the kind of feminism you seem to be reacting to isn't really feminism at all, it is instead this sort of clueless teenaged reactive naval gazing by immature clowns

kind of like how dismantling all governmental protections against abuses by large market players is called "libertarianism" in the usa. while actual genuine libertarianism of the original european sort has to do with social issues. real valid libertarians are interested in legalizing marijuana, not freeing plutocrats from paying their fair share of taxes

so like the word "libertarian" in the usa has been hijacked corrupted and rendered invalid by a plutocrat agenda, so to have a few headcases coopted the word "feminist" and advanced truly nutty causes that only mark the believer in those causes as having some sort of psychological or social deficiency

furthermore, for you to react to these fringe idiots, and believe what they stand for is actual feminism, just means you have been horribly trolled. snap out of it, you've been fooled

real, valid feminism is a very important ideology in this world, against the very real and very evil treatment of women in many parts of this world

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[circletimessquare]

there are societies in this world where women are treated legally as little more than property

the west is only beginning to emerge from this barbarity, as "mens rights" morons like yourself illustrate, misogyny still exists

but to answer your scenario:

if a woman is going to try to victimize me, my first defense is a valid judge of character and never getting involved with an evil harpy in the first place

but if i am socially clueless and lack the insight that will protect me from getting invovled with a vile woman, she's going to victimize me anyway, even if she lives in a medieval sharia law society as you somehow believe it should be: poison me, assassinate my character with gossip, harm our children, etc.

there are evil people in this world

some are men. some are women

fight the evil shitbags of the world, not women. not men

to react to the very notion of women's rights as wrong simply marks you as a socially inept loser

i'm sorry your experience with some women has been so bad. but now you're constructing an artificial fantasy about how you interact with the opposite sex that only means you will be forever victimized in the way you fear. it's really only a testament to your weak mental faculties your own poor character

Re:Yeah, great

[circletimessquare]

is this the evidence you are referring to?

furthermore there's many different kinds of porn

there is indeed porn which is rape fantasy or porn which treats the woman brutally

there is also porn which is entirely respectful and almost romantic

there is also porn which shows a woman or women treating a man like shit

i submit the type of porn someone chooses is a reflection of their own predilections, so if they gravitate towards porn which subjugates and brutalizes women, that's about their organic character that existed before viewing that kind of porn

if you put me in front of gay porn, made me watch it constantly since a young age, would i be gay? i submit i would be quite bored, and never get aroused, and never become gay

you have one stilted prejudicial view of only one sector of porn, and think it applies to all porn, and you call this "evidence"

you're a troll or a moron on this topic. either way, you fail, and you reneed to rethink your position, it is intellectually invalid

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[Anonymous Coward]

Pedophilia will never be okay because it requires RAPE.

I think you completely misunderstood the above post. Pedophilia is a sexual preference, not an action, and, just like homosexuality, it's not something a person can choose or change at will. Therefore, pedophiles DO deserve sympathy, but they should also be monitored so that they don't act on their impulses.

Blocked 800 huh?

[Immostlyharmless]

So that only leaves what? Couple of million places left?

Building a censorship infrastructure

[QuietLagoon]

"Blocking porn websites" is usually the rationale given to justify the first step in building an infrastructure to provide wider censorship of the internet.

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Slowly the criteria used to block websites are expanded, and more websites are blocked. Then websites are blocked because they reflect political ideas not sanctioned by the government.

It's a slippery slope.

India is blocking adult websites?

[ArcadeMan]

You mean the same India that invented the freakin' Kama Sutra?!