SavitaBhabhi becomes IT Act 2008’s first BIG target
“Indian govt bans the innovative porn cartoon site savitabhabhi.com . Fuck you bureaucrats ! This ain’t China assholes !” – says a friend’s status on FB and that’s how I got to know about this latest interesting/controvertial development. A quick Twitter search led me to this post on ContentSutra.
According to documents seen by contentSutra.com, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, has asked all Internet Service Providers to block the website in a communication dated 3 June
The Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA), a government agency under the Department of Information Technology, is the agency that is entrusted under the IT Act to block websites. N. Vijayaditya, of the CCA, confirmed the development. “There were several complaints against the site. We have taken action under the relevant sections of the IT Act and blocked the site,” he said. When asked if the agency will give a chance to the owners of the site to defend themselves, he said nobody has come forward so far with such a request. He said he could not say if the agency will pursue legal action against the operators of the website. – ContentSutra.com
The site started having accessibility issues with some ISP’s starting to ban it since 19th June and as per now it’s blocked by all major ISP’s. This would easily be one of the biggest censorship move in India and definitely a cause of worry for Indian netizens who were already apprehensive by the ammendments to the “IT Act 2008″. While people are busy debating if it’s all right to ban the 85th most popular site in India, the guys behind it have started rallying to “Save Savita”. They’ve set up a blog at http://www.savesavita.com/ and are using it to gather support, crowdsource information( including how to access the site). There’s an account on Twitter and on Facebook to connect with SB fans and raise their voice. It will be interesting to see what fate(or should I say Indian Govt) has in store for SavitaBhabhi and how the ammended “IT Act 2008″ will affect us.
While I certainly don’t appreciate this censorship, what do you think about it ?
As mentioned at savesavita.com you can access the site using hidemyass.com
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Pretty soon they will block my blog too. They treat us like we were lab rats. All that Savita Bhabhi did was assert her sexuality with utter confidence and broken norms in a hypocritical society. Sure we’d ban them, a women with sexuality, how dare.
they might block your site for showing some of the objectional item from there
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Let’s gear up to save mastram too http://bit.ly/IDVb1
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One can visit it using proxy – http://tinyurl.com/kokz6u – RT @twilightfairy SavitaBhabhi bcms IT Act2008’s 1st target http://bit.ly/IDVb1
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[...] I was reading this blog on the banning of SavitaBhabhi.com, an Indian porn website, by the Indian government, under the IT act. According to an excerpt [...]
@Padmaja: Given the fact that they new ammendments explicitely mention that they can ban/block any website without offering any explanation is really scarry and leaves a lot of space to block content sites which don’t go down well with them. A woman expressing her sexuality might not be that acceptable I agree but I don’t think it’s the reason here.
@Yatender: Silly but for a second I thought so too(esp before writing about proxy n posting the screenshot)
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17 retweets but only 2(+1) comments for SavitaBhabhi post
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wht the hell is going on. . . . .
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certainly not.. she deserves to be on web and i think she is live back
@Sorav: As much as we’d all like, she isn’t back yet..
please RE OPEN THE WEBSITE THIS IS REAL edution
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