Uproar as India 'bans' porn sites

[Beliathon]

A notice saying “this site has been blocked as per the instructions of competent authority” surprised many Indians as they failed to access pornographic sites on their servers today. The error is being viewed as the possible imposition of a ban by the Indian government. According to a report in Hindustan Times, porn sites were not available on most of the internet service providers (ISPs) including Vodafone, MTNL, ACT, Hathway and BSNL since Saturday night.

Tons of research has been done on this. Quoting few of them here. Findings of Goldstein and Kant, 1973 found that among US prisoners, rapists were more likely than non-rapists, to have been punished for looking at pornography while a youngster. These two also found that strict, religious upbringing to be highly correlated with sexual offences.

A 1984 Canadian study by McKay & Dolff for the Department of Justice of Canada reported, “There is no systematic evidence that suggests that increases in specific forms of deviant behaviour, reflected in crime tend statistics, eg. rape, are causally related to pornography.” Diamond and Uchiyama, 1999, studied the situation in Japan – as explicit materials were readily available, the incidence of rape had dramatically decreased over the past few decades.

Studies from Croatia by Landripet, Stulhofer & Diamond done in 2006 and of US and China done by Diamond also showed significant decreases in rape as pornography became increasingly available.

It's the same thing that's wrong with the puritan mindset. When you raise someone to treat natural human urges as perversion they think about those things as immoral. Then they can end up with a mixed up morality where sexuality is in the same place in their mind as rape and other actually immoral things.

When you do this you risk creating a mindset where good makes you feel repressed and evil is a reluctant indulgence. The more you repress something, the more extreme it will be when you let those urges out. That's why a little porn can be a good release.

Reported Rapes
Based on United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data from 2012: 24,923 reported rapes in India, or 4.26 reported rapes for every 1,00,000 women
This places India at 85 out of 121 countries.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/930919/indians-shocked-as-porn-sites-become-inaccessible/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdoeoU48DIg

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/comment-article-rape-rhetoric-and-reality/article6705077.ece

http://world.time.com/2013/11/08/why-rape-seems-worse-in-india-than-everywhere-else-but-actually-isnt/

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[dsattler]

IMHO it's the wrong way to block every porn site on the internet for the indians.
Applying reasonable censorship only to those sites which show aggressive behaviour against women would be a better way.

[koshgel]

Cant you use proxies to get around the ban?

But data makes some sense. Men are gonna be all sorts of wound up without having anything to whack it to.

[Damiantroll]

I never expected India to try and pull something like this off. If this happened in a very devout Christian country it would make more sense, because pornography and masturbation is entirely lustful. Does Hinduism or Sikhism approach pornography in the same way?

[saddampbuh]

pornography has been a jewish plot to destroy christian morality and spread zionist supremacist thought among the european goyim. as india grows in stature the christ killers wish to spread their corruption eastwards and undermine the noble hindu traditions.

7) Take all prayer and Bible instruction out of the schools and introduce pornography, vulgarity, and courses in sex. If we can make one generation of any nation immoral and sexy, we can take that nation.

8 ) Completely destroy every thought of patriotism, national sovereignty, individualism, and a private competitive enterprise system.

9) Circulate vulgar, pornographic literature and pictures and encourage the unrestricted sale and general use of alcoholic beverage and drugs to weaken and corrupt the youth.

[abcdave]

Cant you use proxies to get around the ban?

Of course you can and this is why these sorts of bans are senseless. They just don't work aside from stopping those that don't know anything about proxies but for those that do restrictions are easily bypassed so I don't know what they think they're going to achieve.

[pandher]

Well what can we expect from a pro[extremist] hindu government. First banning beef, then porn, then they will ask everyone to start worshiping cows[only hindu extremists do that]

[Beliathon]

Well what can we expect from a pro[extremist] hindu government.

Resignation from management of any and all public affairs. Soon.

[ridery99]

Beliathon, you are a funny guy   I start to call you a Mighty Masturbator

[Lauda]

Here we go again. The government is trying to control more and more aspects of people's lives. It's not really a matter of porn sites, but the censorship and control. They definitely haven't put much thought into it and have blocked way too many websites. I doubt that this will actually have the effect that they desire. This is just the start, and censorship lists are easier to expand. Soon they could start banning wrong ideas.

This is why people need to be aware of proxies and VPNs. The government should not be allowed to decide what I can read, watch, etc. on the internet.

[TPTB_need_war]

India can't change it's dogmatic culture (religion), thus it has to resort to censorship.

Another beautiful effect of religion.

In any case, it is futile, just like China banning shorting. People will be motivated to do it moar.

In the end, the culture will be worn down and people will assert their freedom. It is inevitable.

[bojan92]

Why they banned the porn sites in India? Now all the people there will not be in a mood to work, to take care of them self etc. Porn is a very big thing in our life, it relaxes, boosts our mood and does many other great things for the body and the mind of a human being . UNBAN PORN SITES

[Lethn]

This site has been blocked as per the instructions of competent authority

I'm sorry, but I just laugh seeing this even though I know it's serious, by the way, any government that actively tries to block or censors porn, makes my enemies list.

[Sourgummies]

Wonder how much the image around the world of gang rapes plays into this. Would think a country like this would be happy with some of the masses being locked up in a room with tissues and lube,instead of out challenging each other for the dwindling female supply.

[CoinBateman]

People will get their hands on it other ways, censorship doesn't work.