Mumbai: The government’s decision to ban pornographic websites has not gone down to well with Indian netizens. The government of India has banned access to at least 857 websites it considers pornographic in a bid to “protect social decency”.
The order was directed to the internet service providers (ISPs) citing that they violate “morality and decency” of Article 19 (2) of the Constitution and Section 79(3)(b) of the IT Act.
Several Bollywood celebrities took to Twitter to express their dissent to this new rule.
Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, in a series of tweets, has criticised the ban of porn websites in India.
Calling the move "regressive", Varma said banning porn sites is not a solution against sexual crimes.
"History proved it multiple times that if anytime anything is banned it will just gather strength in the underground. +
"Any deprivation of personal liberty of an individual by a government amounts to a regression of social progress of that country. It's a proven fact by international surveys that instead of fuelling sexual crimes porn actually provides safer outlet for sexual repression," he tweeted.
Here are some more celebrity tweets opposing the ban:
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