Ana Kasparian (The Point) and Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick) hosts of The Young Turks discuss. Will making porn legal in India help ease relations between men and women? Let us know what you think in the comments.
India has decided to lift their ban on pornography. In fact recently as many as 857 porn sites were blocked in the country and officials were basically citing child pornography as the reason for blocking this websites. Of course, the vast majority of them had nothing to do with child pornography.
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“India is to partially lift a ban on online pornography after criticism over authorities’ decision to block more than 800 pornographic websites.
In the first large-scale crackdown on the internet in India, the world’s largest democracy, websites were blocked over the weekend as telecommunications companies began to implement government instructions.
The Department of Communications said the aim was to prevent pornography becoming a social nuisance, but the move immediately prompted a nationwide debate about censorship and freedom.
Indian news outlets reported on Wednesday that the ban would be partially withdrawn. Ravi Shankar Prasad, the information and technology minister, told India Today TV: “A new notification will be issued shortly. The ban will be partially withdrawn. Sites that do not promote child porn will be unbanned.”