Whats next? Veil the sculptures at Khajuraho?

The central government banned some 843 sites porn sites for viewing in India. Well that didn’t really perturb me, what perturbed me was the logic behind the decision. Apparently they were done for discouraging child pornography! Honestly, however hard one tried to search, child pornography is globally banned content and difficult to trace. Worst still the government will set up a committee to take further steps in the matter. Doesn’t matter what they say about it; it is all eyewash and we know that.

I have several objections to why they did that, some even on how they implemented the decision. It is a bad decision with even worse implementation. Their skills really suck. Don’t they know about Hola.com? And what could be the logic of such a decision? Probably the answer to the question of the logic partially answers why the implementation is so thoughtless.  Can banning some 800 sites really take porn out of India? You and I both know, it’s not possible; there are millions out there.

Public posturing is a part of administrative policy. This decision is a result of public posturing, much like the decision of a beef ban or banning Gutka in several states or even banning alcohol in Gujarat some decades back. They are available in as much abundance as you may wish to have. So is with porn. And in any case do you think the government cares about it? it doesn’t. Because all it wanted was to posture its position, no wonder the implementation sucks as well.

But they have achieved what they had to. Make the right noises, its half the battle won. Who better than the marketing maverick like Modi would know that. He has been a bachelor all his life. Given up on that pleasure of life, I would atleast presume so. But does that also give him the right to deprive every one else from the same pleasure. Could it be that in the euphoria of this headline grabbing decision, the administration will go overboard in the next steps in this direction. What do we hear next? “Government veils sculptures at Khajuraho!”

This reminds me of the Nirbhaya rape case, which made headlines across the country. We saw a mass movement against molestation and other heinous crimes against women, which lasted for weeks. Even today one woman is raped every 20 minutes in India! There will be one before I finish this blog and painfully there is nothing I can do about it. And this would have happened after the porn ban.

Trust me all this will do, is a get children faster to the subject. Like my eleven year old son asked me what is porn and why is it banned? He is more than inquisitive to know simply because it is now banned. I had to give him some insight and just enough so he stops probing the subject on his own.

If you want to stop something please stop the rapes, please stop the molestation, please provide me a state where my fellow friends can roam freely without a worry of any of these things. This will come through good laws and sound implementation to back them up. This will come with more resources dedicated to education and employment, so the people who harbour these mindsets can find reason within their mind to do more mindful things. The least it would come from is arbitrarily banning some 800 sites one morning. Some will argue this is the first step. Yes it is for sure, but I’d say in the wrong direction!

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