Microsoft and Yahoo decide on Indian porn ban

It's not just about porn for the indian government, they make more and more rules that are similar in fascism to western leader's wet dreams, on all kinds of subjects, I'm not sure why, perhaps they are meeting too many western 'leaders' or something.

But the crux of this story is not india but MS(/yahoo) doing pro-active censorship, and it makes you wonder why, do they like censorship? Or do they hope the indian gov will start to ban google because they 'heard good things about MS'?
Neither is good and both are reasons to stick with google or other search engines, because you might hear about a porn ban but if they start that stuff you can bet they also censor things you don't hear about, political things and religious things.

MANY PEOPLES ARE DOING business and some my friends are going for seen a porn video for net cafe.

I admire your action to band these.
And I'm kindly requesting you to ban these
things in Sri Lanka too.

Indeed it is a great blessing and soothing music to my ear that ye children are indeed debating, verily, through debate comes excellence and the best out of humanity, such as greater understanding and the betterment of humanity.

If I were to ask ye men of science and understanding what is the difference between ye mother, sister, daughter, wife and girlfriends, in regards to sexual partners, what will ye say?

Biologically speaking they are all indeed females, women and possess female genitals and they're eligible for sexual intercourse and there are no limits or barriers, nor limitations whether psychologically, spiritually or physically (basically, they all are functional and incest is not considered bad) than besides religions, what will prevent thee from such acts?

It is becauseth these actions are considered unacceptable that the majority of ye nations do not do such, primarily because of the acceptance of religious values and doctrines more commonly known as LAW, HUMAN VALUES and RIGHTS, which all stem from religious scriptures regardless of how corrupt they are.

This is known in a simple term as the upper limits and the lower limits of humanity, and without such guidance my sons and daughters ye will be brought up and inclined to thinkth it is lawful to have sexual intimacy with ye mother and ye father, and allow me to bring to thee, my children, a similarity/parable, do ye remember when Moses went up to MT Sinai for 30 days? in that time becauseth the majority never considered incest a problem nor were they brought up thinking the like, they committed incest in the masses, similar to what has happened in some parts of Europe, to a similar scale of course.

Listen to what I have to say my children and spread the good word to ye family and relatives and believe in God that ye may be saved, and should ye nought, then take heed, for ye will incur the Mighty Wrath of God and suffer from illnesses similar to that of the AIDS and other STIs.

Some scientists believe that Man is but another species of animal extraordinarily similar to that of the primates, but verily, verily do I sayth unto ye that, if we are similar to animals, than the only thing distinguishing us apart is our Morals, Ethics, Moral Duty, Righteousness, Human Values, Intelligence, virtuousness, Godfearingness, Mercy, Compassion, Humbleness, Shame, Love, Selflessness and finally The Ability To Reason and Freethinkingness.

If we lack Religion, than I fear my sons and daughters, that we may lack any one or more of the very important traits above that makes us Humans and Proud Children of Adam. Otherwise we are indistinguishable from mindless, imperfect animals.

Humans are the most able creation of God in the world, when properly nurtured and brought up on the ways God ordained, than we are EVEN better than Angels....however, without the correct upbringing and religion, we are more diabolical than the Devil Lucifer himself, we will surpass and surprise even him.

Well, back on the subject of religion, not that i agree to everything said above by the 2 morons... Still. They do seem to be freethinkers so perhaps there's hope and light at the end of the tunnel 'course you must shoot the geezer with the match first that they will believe.

Look, If people followed more of their own books, no matter how fu*ked up and corrupted it is right, it's still better than nothing, at least you have a sense of belonging and generally feel part of something special. I'll give you a few examples of the major religion, the minor ones are irrelevant, the ones that are on news everyday matter!

1) The Sunday church gathering and also weddings/funerals at the church, by Christians.

2) The Friday prey gathering at the mosque and whatever else goes on in there.

(i know these 2 faiths are big and very close to each other hence the example)

These are beautiful things and for instances the people that belong to such groups are less likely to act on their own, as sheepish as they are, they'll probably discuss things with the priest/imam or some other people are solve things in a non-violent way, probably. And they divorce less according to BBC 'cos they're not into getting rich and basically robbing the poor fellow for some financial gains something like prostitutes do daily.

Should someone step out of line, the authorities and others can go to their masters and deal with the situation. But generally these people will have strong morels and set limits based on their whatever religion even if they lack themselves. With none of that the sky is the limit; think of all of these people you hear about that do some crime and shoot themselves after. Both bible and quran says if you kill yourself you are going hell.

Remember the truck guy that raped and killed his daughter afterwards hang himself out of guilt once he had left the super-sonic mode (after sonic acquires the 7 emerald gems). I know it's simple but it's true if you have not had sex for a while you go into this crazy mode and view any girl with interest otherwise you are picky. Probably why rapes take place.

It's good to study religion and not go about blind faith also it's good to be open-minded so if someone is trying to get you to have sex with your mother and tries to point to some passage in the bible, you can tell it's bulls*it.

The other day i heard 3000 people die of aids in the world every day. Remember both of the above religion encourages marriage so basically the 2 of you just contain the problem till you eventually die taking that sh*t with you so you won't give it to noone else. If all the people with these disease were to just go into a black hole tomorrow then the rest of us could happily have some nice sessions all over without any condoms and wot not cause some nice adultery and fornication and have some real fun with no consequences.

I know we were all sent here by some creator/god to make lots of babies and fill the planet up, and we're doing well. Think about it if there were no attraction to the opposite sex humanity would have been over long ago, so gods programming is intact - don't know about the gays though, they're on some next sh*t and like the church (not too long ago) said they pose a bigger threat to mankind than even global warming! Think long and hard dumbass especially when you are not drunk out of your head.

You know the Amish, well i see these lot and they're so peaceful and trustworthy and while living the simple life and true to their bible, they don't suffer the issues of modernday problems like rape, murder, adultery, theft, aids, drugs amongst others... Think dumbass. You got your porn and while you droll over someone else's girl while he's doing her, you're receiving some sort of pleasure, you're never really going to get her. More like a temp. stiffy. You can have your toses but it'd be far better to have someone care and love for you on a long term basis.

I believe.

I'm very disappointed with MS & Yahoo's decision.

It's kinda lame for India to do this in the first place...at one end they wanna be a superpower & challenge the world & in other areas they wanna do this.

But the goverment is to blame for this they're run by a bunch of hypocrites who will always listen to the "vote giving" people i.e common poor man. He can't even afford the Internet so it's useless.

Last time I checked I was able to watch *ahem* on bing just needed to turn safe search or content filtering off. I'll do it again.

Oh & before anyone flames me or anything I'm from India, Mumbai. Thank-You very much :-)

I research things that are worthy of research and after doing a fair amount of research on a variety of religions many years ago I realized with very few exceptions it is a subject not worthy of the time or effort to sift through the BS. In fact most professed believers actually know very little about their chosen faith given the vast majority of modern day religions are actually based on BS made up by politicians to control the masses or express their own personal views, fables crafted to teach basic morality but have no basis in reality and practices adapted from earlier faiths. Faiths which more often then not were deemed heresy by the creators of the new religion.

On top of those fundamental problems with modern day religions you also face the problem that most current religions have actually gone through more then a few transforms, often as a result of inaccurate translations of the holy texts into a new language or even a new version/dialect of the same language, or split into countless sects and bare little resemble to their original form. One fine example of a transformation is in Christianity, did you know that no where in the original text of the bible does it actually refer to heaven as a place you go to for an eternal reward after death. This is a common misconception which is currently thought to have evolved from a verbiage change when King James and his court translated and essentially rewrote the bible in the early 17th century to a form more to their liking. In fact if you study the context of the use of the word heaven in the bible it actually is a reference to the sky, not some mythic afterworld where you are rewarded for living a virtuous life. It's funny that this misconception is actually somewhat of a result of the first fundamental flaw in modern religions cause the verbiage change was the result of the kings court speaking a different form of english from the common man, this was an intentional language difference cause it helped the "nobles" keep the "commoners" in their place.

Another fine example of religion undergoing change as a result of personal/political points of view is adultery. Originally adultery was punished by death for both parties involved however as mistresses became a more popular practice in many European cultures the nobles decided it would be a bit of a drag to have to put their friends, and selves for that matter, to death so it became frowned upon publicly but privately as long as you confessed it to your priest and did a couple meaningless pennants you could get away with it. Hell for that matter more then a few popes were known to keep mistresses even after men of the cloth were supposed to be celibate.

Ironically the religions which remain purest to their founding principals are eastern religions such as Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto and Confucianism which accept change as a fact of existence. This is probably because most eastern religions are actually more evolved philosophies based on changeable ideas rather belief structures based on rigid rules that are often abandoned as soon as they are considered inconvenient by the majority of those in power. This of course just brings us back to the hypocrisy of religion.

Anyway I doubt you actually have much of a clue about your own religion and it's practices cause odds are you just blindly believe what is currently being taught about it by the established organization which more often then not glosses over a lot of the real history in favor of an idealized view point. Not that that's all that surprising since most people these days don't take the time to learn about any religion including the one they have pressed upon them by their parents as they grew up and by the time they reach an age where they could learn about them and potential make a real choice for themselves they've been so indoctrinated that they are little more then mindless zombies on the subject. Honestly it's the same approach the Nazis took with the Hitler youth, Mao Zedong took with the Red Guard and various other fascist, racist and other generally evil organizations have taken with their young people of the millenia.

You ask a lot of questions, a lot of good questions.

Has it ever occur to you to actually do a little research yourself? Apparently it's your position to have others educate you and take no positive action yourself to gain knowledge. Seems to me you'd rather remain ignorant in place of gaining true understanding of another persons beliefs and tolerance for them. Beliefs such as personal freedom and accountability.

But no matter. At least those of us who do have the beliefs you mention know why we take the stand we do. You on the other hand simply rant. And that's exactly what a barking dog on a chain does.

Now we all know that most religions are shining examples of hypocracy and if you don't believe that most religions say something about not killing which suddenly is forgotten the second it comes to someone of a different belief system but this reminds me of a study conducted in the US. The results of the study were that the more religious the state the more porn is downloaded.

Seriously to all you religious people out there I ask do you think your god really cares if you rub one out? Hell do you really think your god cares about half the stuff you do. Honestly any halfway decent god wouldn't give his creations free will then outlaw all sorts of things which make no difference to anyone like the whole thing with catholics not eating meat on friday's in lent, I mean who comes up with this crap and what are they on cause it's either some really, really good stuff or some really bad stuff they should quit fast.

Oh, Children of Adam what ye have done is indeed wrong, but know ye this, that the love and mercy of God exceeds that of the simple understanding of ye men.

I ask that ye all do ye best and strive to bring the kingdom of God onto the earth and remember what ye messenger said unto ye "If the eye causeth ye to go to hell cut it off and cast it aside from thee, it is better that it be destroyed than the entire body"

So how many of ye have cut off ye Penis? Ye forsaken and adultrous generation? was not that the word of Jonah?

But verily, ye ways will lead ye into the burning abyss, and the love/blood of the christ will avail ye naught

Today ye have been warned my children, so take the good word (gospel) to all corners of the earth in an attempt to establish the kingdom of God, should ye fail, at least ye tried and will not be blamed by God.

and remember XMAS is a Christian Celebration, no Agnostic, Atheist, Muslim, or Jew is welcome to it until they believe in God and Jesus

this is simply hypocrite in any civilisation sex can not be banned but can be controlled voluntarily no law could enforce it strictly

kathy

Funny! With the world's largest red light areas like Kamatipura and Mayabazaar. India is in no position to debate about pros and cons of porn. Atleast people watching porn are harmless. They won't be spreading diseases like those prostitutes and their customers in brothels.Indian govt has no right banning porn when there are much pressing issues to be addressed like prostitution, rape etc. Congies are looking at facing saving measures after their grand old man ND Tiwari was found with pants down.

Ps:- MR Tiwari, do you charge the cost of viagras to the state treasury?

India's age of consent for heterosexual sex is 16 except in Manipur, where it is 14. If the partners are married then a lower age of consent applies (13 in
www.avert.org/age-of-consent.htm

Age of consent in India is 16, however, the police in India is not very concerned with paedophilia or child abuse. Brothels are occasionally raided and ...
www.ageofconsent.com/india.htm

They should first remove corrupted criminals from government, and only then try to impose ethic norms on society.

mh commented that he thought rape went down due to the use of porn. Where are you getting that info? I believe the opposite to be true. People can now secret themselves away via pc's...and live in their fantasy world. They allow these fantasies to grow until the virtual sex is no longer enough an they have to feed the genie.

Rape has increased in the 2oth and 21st centuries... child porn has exploded...are you going to argue that child abductions and the use of children for sexual exploitation has dwindled since child porn has become available?

All this is a bit rich,coming from a country that is a 'prime' producer of porn.
Somehow, I think these protest a somewhat loud,when you consider that it's not exactly a 'problem',when there are very simple workarounds to this form of censorship.

We in the USA are pretty numb to all that's available on line cause we've been exposed so much, but some people new to the internet might get hooked on porn for a little while because it's new, but i think most will not care after a while. I don't think the govt should control what people do, but they should educate them about the internet and dangers.

"Mover about the country being the 3rd world as commented by some one ... Yes it is 3 rd World, and soon it is going to be THE World."

THAT^

This move will serve no purpose, when the shops in India are filled with DVDs having the "Stuff" they call PORN.

I feel like laughing. ... It like not having a chocolate for the fear of diabetes and than having 1 KG of Sugar in your Coffee Mug.

Mover about the country being the 3rd world as commented by some one ... Yes it is 3 rd World, and soon it is going to be THE World.

LMAO, very funny article, even if everyone else read it straight :P

Indians should know that Yahoo is more than pornography. Shame on indians who have the habit. They should think thrice.

That is some serious bull i mean who the hell are we to ban these people from doing what they want not everyone in america agrees with porn but really come on now if u dont agree with it dont watch it if u didnt want to see it you wouldnt be looking it up and just b/c yahoo and microsoft dont let them there are plenty of other search engines they cant completely take it off the internet thats never gonna happen. and how the hell do you exactly go about blocking one subcontinent from searching such things

And what exactly does "Bing" have to do with Windows, OSX or your Linux exactly?

IT'S A FREAKING SEARCH ENGINE
No more and no less.

The sad thing is bing is perhaps the single best Search Engine ~for porn~ FULL STOP!!

"Just another reason I hate MS and use Linux.
Now where are the MS fanboys to flame me!
posted by : Regulas"

What the hell is wrong with you Linux geeks. Do you have to bring your sad operating system into everything, an OS you can't give away!

If the Indians want to "free themselves" from "American search engine hegemony", and be able to search for porn or whatever else, they can open up their own search engine.

Somehow, I doubt the result would be any different; Microsoft and Yahoo are probably just giving them what they'd want anyway. Hell, it't not like they'd make much money from the search results anyway.

Typical American!!
Freedom of speech my ass....money talks, as usual...
Bastards!

"The Man" a metaphor for control freaks in government and high places who are not satisfied with their own life and want to shove their views on everyone else. Just another reason I hate MS and use Linux.
Now where are the MS fanboys to flame me!

I thought they conducted some study where rape in 3rd world countries significantly went down because porn was easily accessible on the net (with *paf*paf*paf* action in cyber cafes, etc). I know it sounds a bit sad, but hey, if it cuts down on rape, who gives a damn if people whack off to porn on-line?

Just cause some high profile yahoo got caught with their tiny weewee exposed, all of india can't enjoy virtual sex with tera patrick... makes me feel like a sad panda :( Of course people with half a brain will use google, and of course, the motherload, USENET! ;)

Nice of them to take that decision on behalf of a billion people