Microsoft, Yahoo help keep India porn free Look for the Kama Sutra elsewhere

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According to the Guardian, Indian authorities have managed to convince Yahoo and Microsoft to limit their search engines and prohibit users from searching for smut.

Yahoo and Flickr have apparently made changes to their sites, preventing users from switching off the SafeSearch feature. The same goes for users in Singapore, Hong Kong and Korea, probably the South one, as the North in well known for its liberal free speech policies and abundant internet connectivity.

Microsoft has also implemented some changes on its Bing search engine. Indian users who try searching for sexual content on Bing get a notice saying their country requires a strict SafeSearch setting and that the search has been filtered for adult content.

The changes seem to have been prompted by India's Information Technology Act of 2000. This piece of legislation is based on a 150-year-old statute and it prohibits publication of pornographic material online.

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17023/1/

No internet sex please, we're Indian

The clampdown is understood to be in response to recent changes to India's Information Technology Act of 2000, which bans the publication of pornographic material.

That law, which is based on a 150-year-old statute (section 292 of the Indian penal code), defines obscenity as "any content that is lascivious and that will appeal to prurient interest or the effect of which is to tend to deprave or corrupt the minds of those who are likely to see, read or hear the same".

In October, the scope of the 2000 act was dramatically widened to enable action to be taken against a wide range of providers, from internet search engines and internet service providers to cyber-cafes. Under the new law, they are obliged to exercise due diligence and disable access to any content which contravenes the act. Failure to do so carries a three-year jail sentence and a fine of up to 500,000 rupees (£6,690).

Search engine reports suggest that users in India are responsible for more searches for "sex" than those in any other country. Its popular daily newspapers are packed with pictures of young women in states of undress and Bollywood oozes sexuality from every pore.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/28/sex-internet-india-law



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