Blocking Mechanism of Porn Website in India: Claim and Truth

TL;DR

This paper reviews the effectiveness of current internet content blocking mechanisms used to restrict access to pornographic websites in India amidst societal and legal challenges.

Contribution

It provides an analysis of the existing web content blocking techniques and their practical effectiveness in the Indian context.

Findings

Current blocking mechanisms face technical and ethical challenges.

Legal initiatives have been implemented but with limited success.

Effectiveness varies depending on the technique used.

Abstract

In last few years, the addiction of internet is apparently recognized as the serious threat to the health of society. This internet addiction gives an impetus to pornographic addiction because most of the pornographic content is accessible through internet. There have been ethical concerns on blocking the contents over internet. In India Uttarakhand High court has taken initiative for the blocking of pornographic content over internet. Technocrats are coming up with various innovative mechanisms to block the content over internet with various techniques, although long ago in 2015. The Supreme Court of India has already asked to block some of the websites but it could not be materialized. The focus of this research paper is to review the effectiveness of blocking existing web content blocking mechanism of pornographic websites in Indian context.