NDA Gov now wants to 'moral police' the Internet with the help of ISPs

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BENGALURU | DELHI: Blocking Internet porn may be next to impossible. But the Indian government is going to try anyhow.

The plan is to begin by creating a list of pornography sites, especially those hosting child porn, and provide that to Internet service providers (ISPs) to block. And then, to ensure that largescale blocking does not slow Internet access, service providers will be asked to upgrade their infrastructure. The Internet and Mobile Association of India has been asked to curate the list.

At a meeting chaired by Telecom & IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and attended by top government officials in September, the "problem of porn" was discussed and the minister directed the departments of IT and telecom to work together to improve "blocking infrastructure" at the ISP level.

Prasad said although porn is legal in other countries, it needs to be viewed in the "context of Indian culture and moral obligation towards society".
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http://telecom.economictimes.indiat...ck-pornography-sites-upgrade-systems/45105762

and yeah, btw, Sushma Swaraj was I&B minister in 2001-02 and she banned FTV. Read more.
 
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Instead of improving broadband infrastructure they will waste time doing these stupid things. India is behind even pakistan in average broadband speed.
 
We are going backward instead of forward, I swear.

This child porn nonsense is bullshit. They are trying to hide behind it to blanket ban all porn sites.

Wonder how long it will take to turn this into Internet monitoring like China. A$$holes.
 
Well given ISPs like Airtel are already more than happy to serve on John Doe rulings, this will be walk in the park for the government. Though, the most moronic part is many ISPs block urls and you can access sites with ip addresses (tried with Airtel lot of times) so not sure how this will work.
 
avi said:
http://telecom.economictimes.indiat...ck-pornography-sites-upgrade-systems/45105762

and yeah, btw, Sushma Swaraj was I&B minister in 2001-02 and she banned FTV. Read more.
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I guess this will qualify as child-pRon too:

1. Reliance to release a movie on a weekend, block file sharing host servers.
2. Arindham Chaudhary is not happy about some slander (actually truth) pertinent to his institutions, seek a blanket block on portals.
3. Some minister is not happy with online content block the website, send a notice.
4. Arrest some girls for commenting about a minister on FB.
5. Arrest a cartoonist for drawing satire.

India is not even at the zenith of political stupidity coupled with malignant governance for IT / Telecom. How about catching the ISPs and how they rip off customers and the malpractices out in the industry. Lack of CC and fraudulent billing, or the SMS rampage with viral tele-calling.
 
'wants to' 'will try to' 'can say they tried'

Actual result many months later ? who will track this story over time, any volunteers

why does everyone believe this will be a foregone conclusion before it even started.

is the indian state this successful at anything it wants to do :)
 
Even Kapil Sibal (KS, yea sounds like a condom name); had barked some time back, that all Tweets and FB updates would be monitored by a team, run by the government...!
 
When you make someone with no clue about IT and Communication the minister for the same, this is all you get - ignorance of real problems and searching for rubbish like this. If he had any semblance of sense, he'd instead work on improving the connectivity for mango man and change the definition of broadband from the stone age 512kbps to at least 4-8mbps.
 
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why do you think they are not monitoring?
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Is it not too much data, to rifle through each and every update done from Indian soil; on Tweeter and FB..? Of course they will not be able to access the servers directly and I doubt there is any exposed API from the owners which lets one aggregate entries..!
 
asingh said:
Is it not too much data, to rifle through each and every update done from Indian soil; on Tweeter and FB..? Of course they will not be able to access the servers directly and I doubt there is any exposed API from the owners which lets one aggregate entries..!
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Data is not big, not really. FB alone handles 1PTB of data everyday afaik. And Gov doesn't need public APIs ;-)

Look for NSA Prism and our very own DRDO's NETRA
 
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