Most heart-breaking news of
the year (no, Salman is not marrying)is the infamous porn ban in India. It has already
made it to international news platforms and created huge uproar in the country and
mocking the govt. in several ways. days later , after the ban , govt. backed
down saying the sites should not be blocked after all, other than any proven to
be showing child pornography.
First
thoughts: what’s wrong with porn?
According
to me, not much.
We
watch/read/see pornography to, oh I don’t know, have a bit of fun.
And
really, it isn’t bad. Sexual health is also important for overall health, and
porn may help people achieve that. Porn, like so many other internet
commodities, is not good or bad by itself, in my opinion. As long as you use it
for your personal purposes, I don’t think it’s anyone’s business to stop you
from enjoying it.
Kamlesh Vaswani, the man who
compiled the list of 857 porn sites and sought a ban for an assortment of
reasons, including the imperative to protect users of porn from their own base
urges. "Nothing can more efficiently destroy a person, fizzle their mind,
evaporate their future, eliminate their potential or destroy society like
pornography,” he had pleaded. The court sensibly declined to order the ban,
finding that adults in India are perfectly capable of judging whether they are
fit to look at pornography and fizzle their minds, or not. In any case, as
officials from the telecoms ministry admitted this week, many internet users
are well aware of how to circumvent national restrictions on access to
websites.
In his petition, it has been
stated that pornography causes violence against women. Is pornography the only
reason why violence against women occurs? The psychology of the individual, the
socialisation, and the environment do not matter at all?
As rightly stated by Chetan
Bhagat "Don't ban porn. Ban men ogling, leering, brushing past, groping,
molesting, abusing, humiliating and raping women. Ban non-consent. Not
sex,".
The ban on internet porn at
the end of the day is one of those short-sighted decisions which will only
irritate a large number of people, will not affect any real social change, and
sets a very undesirable precedent.
Meanwhile with an eye to
capture the imagination of the youth of the country once again, alleged youth
icon and Congress VP, Rahul Gandhi, has decided to follow the tried and tested
formula of visiting the people most affected by the ban. Sources claim that he
intends to eat watch porn with these
people to express solidarity and send out strong message to Modi govt. (Source-
firstpost.com )
Here's
how Twitter reacted to the news:
Ban homosexuality. Ban porn. Ban
certain words in movies. Ban alcohol. Ban beef. Ban everything not in our
culture. Hello dark age!
— Vivek Tejuja (@vivekisms) August 1, 2015
Ban on Tobacco - Lol Ban on Eggs -
Lol Ban on Beef - Lol Ban on Porn - THIS IS SPARTA !!
— Shaktimaan Thackeray
(@Madan_Chikna) August 1,
2015
No religion, no political party, no
leader can unite this country like the ban on porn can.
— TheBlackMagicWoman (@aanchalator) August 1, 2015
Someone must remind the current
government that they were elected to run the nation not become moral science
teacher #pornban
Dear @narendramodi ji, As a bachelor,
how can you allow #PornBan
— The Babama (@Me_Haresh) August 1, 2015
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