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Porn ban to be lifted partially, says
government


The government on Tuesday gave in to
a massive outrage over its decision to
ban 857 pornographic websites and
said it will lift the blockade while
continuing to censor sites that
promote child pornography.
"A new notification will be issued
shortly. The ban will be partially
withdrawn. Sites that do not promote
child porn will be unbanned,"
Information and Technology Minister
Ravi Shankar Prasad told India Today
TV.
The Ministry of Communications and
Information and Technology, in its
order of July 31 under section 79(3)(b)
of the IT Act 2000, banned the 857
websites terming their content
"immoral and indecent".
In July, the Supreme Court had said
banning adult websites was not its
job, but was an issue for the
government. That followed an order
from the court last year that suggested
the government needed to monitor
access to pornography.
No moral policing, said Indians
Many Indians had accused the
government of moral policing and
infringing on personal freedoms.
"Don't ban porn. Ban men ogling,
leering, brushing past, groping,
molesting, abusing, humiliating and
raping women. Ban non-consent. Not
sex," author Chetan Bhagat said on
Twitter. "Porn ban is anti-freedom,
impractical, not enforceable.
Politically not very smart too.
avoidable. Let's not manage people's
private lives," he added.
In the past India has tried to control
social media sites like Facebook and
Twitter and ask them to take down
offensive material. It had briefly
blocked several Twitter accounts in
2012 citing security and law and order
fears. It also blocked access to a
homegrown soft-porn website in 2009.
Owing to the growth in the smart
phone sector, online porn viewing is
going to see an explosion in the next
five years, a recent study said.
According to Britain-based digital
market research specialist firm
Juniper Research, online porn
watching will grow by nearly 42
percent in the next five years.
The porn video hits will grow to 193
billion a year by 2020 from around 136
billion this year, it said. Growth is
taking place in the video chat and
webcam content area in the global
porn industry that is worth $97 billion.