
India may have eased up on its porn ban, but it won’t be easy for ISPs to unblock sites
The Indian government said on Tuesday that it will no longer block porn content on the Web, but will sustain its ban on child sexual abuse sites, reports India Today. The country’s Information and Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told the outlet, “A new notification will be issued shortly. The ban will be partially withdrawn. Sites that do not promote child porn will be unbanned.” However, Medianama reports that a letter to internet service providers (ISPs) states that they “are free not to disable any of the 857 URLs which do not have child pornography.” This implies that ISPs will…
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