Dear Law Makers
Posted by JoNov 25
I don’t know if it is because you guys are past your age of “getting jiggy with it” or worried about the rising number of young people in India and taking your old-vs-young revenge on them, but what the local news papers have been reporting about the thing you have done with the IT amendment act is quite horrible. I mean, how fair is it to arrest somebody even without a warrant for browsing porn online? Considering that Internet is the best possible medium available for youth to please themselves, this new rule is mostly going to affect the youngsters. If you curb the youth’s virtual sexual adventures like that, wouldn’t they get even more curious to sneak into the lives of the real people and seek real sex out of them? Or is it your way of telling the youth to “go out, have some real sex, time to stop the single tennis game“? But even then, you guys haven’t yet legalized prostitution here and the sexual abuse/crime rates are increasing in the country! I mean, the law enforcement is most of the times silent about those old politicians, top officials who are accused of raping minors using their flesh trade connections but you can arrest an ordinary person for just browsing porn online without causing anyone any harm?! WTF is that?
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8 comments
Comment by Sowmya on November 25, 2009 at 12:57 pm
After all- law makers are of their convenience too
Jo, Very thought provoking post ! !
Comment by Narayanan on November 26, 2009 at 12:22 am
Vande Mataram !!.
Comment by Khan Sahab on November 26, 2009 at 3:40 am
Wow! Jo … this post was a bit outspoken (not surprised though)! While I agree on your stand on having the liberty by youngsters (over the age of 18) to browse the internet, my question really is how come the younger people have so much time to get involved in such activities anyway? Why our societies are not involved in creating an atmospheres where people can be involved in healthier, more productive activities.
I went to Pakistan a few years ago and was shocked to see very young kids (in their early teens and some even younger) spending almost all of their day playing violent, semi-pornographic video games in those so-called internet-cafes. I was preparing for my trip to India and had to send emails and print some documents! I was in the internet cafe for hardly 20 minutes but was so disgusted that I almost got into fight with one of the kids who was using profanity as if his life depended on it.
What happened to library systems? What happened to soccer, hockey, and cricket tournaments that use to take place in every lane and bylane of every neighborhood? What happened to evening discussion with the elders where social and cultural issues were discussed and resolved in a decent fashion? What happened to “life” in past 20-30 years? I guess we all must have to learn to live “online” sooner or later.
Comment by TJ on November 26, 2009 at 6:02 am
Young people of the 80s and 90s didn’t even have internet to “please themselves”. Their world didn’t crash. I guess once you get addicted to something, it’s tough when it is taken away.
Comment by Jo on November 26, 2009 at 1:48 pm
TJ: Their world didn’t crash because they had many other ways to please themselves. Remember the cliched scenes in our old movies of men/boys ogling at women who bathe in the pond?
Comment by scorpiogenius on November 26, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Is it the only point in the IT Act that worries you Jo? What about the two young men arrested for the simple “crime” of forwarding an email containing the house image meant to crack at Pinarayi? Acc to the law WE are responsible to check the authenticity of every message we forward, or else you are liable to be tried under Indian Penal Code!!! :O
Comment by Ullas on November 30, 2009 at 11:09 am
I don’t know which exact rule you’ve referenced here but to the best of my knowledge, it’s browsing ‘child porn’ that will get jailed and not adult porn. And that according to me is quite right.
Comment by Jo on November 30, 2009 at 11:32 am
Ullas: If it’s child porn, then it’s quite alright.