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The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) said today that no pornographic websites have been banned in the country, despite numerous claims by officials and a misconceived public notion.OIC NCPA Budhdhika Balachandra told the Daily Mirror that theTelecommunication Regulatory Commission had not acted in this regard . “ We took all relevant steps to ban websites that include pornographic material, and through our efforts we were able to succeed in banning over 300 websites which contain material of Lankan Pornograhic models, however, all efforts have come to a standstill and these websites continue to operate under different names today because there was no actual ban that was effected by the TRC” he said.
When the Daily Mirror pointed out that the goal of banning pornographic websites were unrealistic and borders on diluting freedom of choice, the OIC said that the goal of his department was not utopian and the aim was to create awareness among the general public that sites of this nature exists and to deter children from accessing sites of this nature. “We understood that we can’t ban all pornographic websites that are currently on the internet. But we wanted to create awareness among parents and the general citizenry about the existence of these websites which include women being raped, animal porn and incest” he said.
Balachandra also went onto point out that the department tried its utmost to ban pornography on mobile phones which could have been banned and was not unrealistic like the accessing websites through the computer. “One of the main methods of access to pornographic material is via mobile phones. Almost all teenagers and many pre teens use mobile phones today and a majority of them access porn through their mobile phones. We tried in vain and were defeated by the large mobile companies in court who were not willing to ban such material on mobile phones” he said.
Chairman of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission Anusha Pelpita confirmed the statement made by the OIC. “How can we ban all sites? All that we have done is ban sites that have been recommended to us by the courts or a relevant authority. We realistically cannot ban all porn websites. Therefore we can only ban websites that have been referred to us by a competent authority” he said.( By Hafeel Farisz)
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There are many things that need to be done before banning online aathal. Id that is stopped people will resort to physical aathal with drastic results.
No ban because you cannot stop it completely. Its so easy to bypass the service provider thru proxies. If you stop these sites reactions or outcome can be severe.
And you can't say the things these "porn" websites are "porn" they are mostly videos and photos stolen from mobile phones, computers and digital cameras or videos and photos that are released by ex boyfriends after breaking up
See how many people had lost their money in the iforex web site. How many are playing online gambling and loosing money.
Teaching is the only proper way.
Besides prohibition of these sites may lead to increase other crimes. Dubai city (In UAE) for instant, being an Islamic country, has some tolarence for prostitution, think WHY.
TRC & NRCP just realised what we know eons ago...................
If an ISP is given website address to be banned , they can ban it easily. That's how they did to block tamilnet. (it's a little configuration on Routers or firewalls)
ISPs use very primitive methods to ban websites & that's why people can access them through Internet Proxy Servers.
If needed we can block unwanted categories of websites completely within Sri lanka. Eventhough new websites are coming daily in porn category , website categorization databases are also updating regularly. We have to use required equipment to access global databases & ban these categories.
Apart from above technical concerns , should we ban Porn/Political websites is another question.
Some recent data from the UK draws a disturbing picture of the average youth. Some got a lot of sex partners, they try to "copy" the porn and got low self esteem.
This like parading some Indian and some other asian like women as Sri Lankan models.
You better move to Saudi Arabia to 'save' your children. Do you have any idea about internet censoring any-ways? :)
Utter nonsens to think that internet can be censored.
Education is the best.
What's wrong with legalising prostitution like most enlightened countries have done? Then the state can control it, cut off pimpiyas and thugs, make sure the sex workers get regular medical tests -- and satisfy a huge demand? They can also get brothel tax to fill this beggar government's depleted coffers. After all, prostitution is the oldest profession in the world. We should praise it, not denounce it.
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