“Indian Culture says NO to porn sites” according to senior official at ministry of IT; however cyber laws were never strong enough to restrict porn from Indian users.
It’s unfair to even try restrict people from porn; no matter what the legalities say – it is very much a part of Indian men and women surfing time online.
Last week, ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)approved .xxx suffix to pornography websites. This will help segregate the pornography websites from others because of the new nomenclature.
India along with a few other countries opposes the new way of segregation and grant of the domain in first place as it is against the Indian IT laws. Isn’t the India cyber and IT laws making a mockery of itself which allows .com and .in domains but .xxx is banned.
Even cities allow red-light areas and moreover .xxx domains will make it easier to cordon off access to such sites easily. According to Indian Penal Code, distribution of porn content is illegal but watching such content is permitted. How stupid is that !
Under section 67 of IT act whoever publishes, distributes porn content in any form of find involved may be imprisoned for 5 years or penalized with 1 lakh of rupees.
I believe we should allow .xxx domains to porn sites in India simply because I don’t find any reason as why to oppose it on some stupid grounds. We can atleast be organized just as we tried to do with .gov, .edu, .org etc domains.