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India Blocks Over 800 Adult Websites

Posted by samzenpus on from the nothing-to-see-here dept.

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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  1. Yeah, great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

    1. Re:Yeah, great by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Informative

      more socially conservative societies that restrict outlets for harmless sexual release do indeed have higher rates of rape and sexual violence in general. there is much truth to the concept of catharsis as a way to reduce rape and sexual violence. it doesn't prevent everything, just some of it

      but bringing up child porn in this context is a red herring because the creation of child porn victimizes actual children, and this is why it is genuinely immoral illegal and verboten

      sexual content between consenting adults is completely unrelated to child porn. to believe it is marks you as woefully inadequate to comment intelligently on the topic, or a failed troll

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      intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
    2. Re:Yeah, great by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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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      intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
    3. Re:Yeah, great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

  2. Blocked 800 huh? by Immostlyharmless · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

  3. Building a censorship infrastructure by QuietLagoon · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "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.