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Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Big Brother is watching you, voyeur
The Times of India informs us that "[t]he Maharashtra government is seriously considering a legislation to rein in Internet cafes that allow customers access to porn sites." Neelam Gorhe, the Shiv Sainik who is behind this move, was quoted saying:
A great tool like the Internet used for education is being misused and children and youth are taking to vice. Women have to bear the brunt with such unbridled access to obscenity.I wonder if she presented any empirical evidence in favour of this, which seems to arise more out of false premises than observed behaviour. If anything, I would imagine the opposite to be true, and for sexual violence to be directly proportional to sexual repression. But our moral police is concerned only with purity of intent, and not with likely outcome. Pity.
