They already have. Don't know what's holding them back. It's actually being looked at as a joke petition as of now. If they do decide to ban porn their going to have a helluva time defining it. And then putting into place appropriate filters that ensure that other perfectly legitimate content isn't blocked. For ex: if you randomly choose to block all web pages that use the word "penis" or "vagina" you'd end up blocking a shockingly large amount of perfectly legal content. In other words, as "well-intentioned" as the law might be, in effect the technology that is applied becomes the law.
Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -----Original Message----- From: Srini RamaKrishnan <che...@gmail.com> Sender: silklist-bounces+nikhil.mehra773=gmail....@lists.hserus.net Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:22:51 To: <silklist@lists.hserus.net> Reply-To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] India Considers Banning Pornography as Reported Sexual Assault Rises - NYTimes.com Thanks Nikhil, that gives hope, now to pray the 24x7 news channels won't catch wind of it. The thought of heated debates and many hours of programming will be hard to resist. On Apr 25, 2013 3:17 PM, "Nikhil Mehra" <nikhil.mehra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay < > sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan <che...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > The conservatives will obviously welcome this and the politicians will > > love > > > it because it's a meaningless but decisive move; with no political > > downside > > > to it because of the taboo. > > > > It would take a remarkable politician to bet him/herself against the > > "(s)he opposed the anti-porn bill and betrayed our women" tirade. Our > > current crop of elected representatives are not made of that stuff. > > > > This is in the form of a petition before the Supreme Court right now. > Since issues before the SC aren't necessarily brought into the media with > the same intensity and detail that day-to-day politics receives, I don't > think the gumption or calibre of our politicians will necessarily be > tested. The principal ground of the petition is that pornography is > directly linked to the rise in heinous sexual offences against women. While > it is much harder for a politician to raise a general defense of > pornography, it is much easier to oppose the proposition stated by the > petition. And in doing so, they wouldn't even be doing anything new. The > viewing of pornography has always been legal in India. Theres a judgment of > the Bombay High Court to that effect. So I think that the stance of > politicians on this issue isn't necessarily fait accompli. > > Regards, > Nikhil Mehra > > Advocate, Supreme Court of India > Tel: (+91) 9810776904 > Res: C-I/10, AIIMS Campus, > Ansari Nagar (East) > New Delhi - 110029. >
