01-01-2010, 12:41 AM
[url="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1567050/microsoft-yahoo-decide-indian-porn-ban"]Microsoft and Yahoo decide on Indian porn ban[/url]
Quote:ALTHOUGH MICROSOFT AND YAHOO have not actually tied the knot yet, they appear to be unanimous about the need to protect Indians from the perils of pornography.
Yahoo has announced that it is blocking sex searches for all those on the Indian subcontinent. Its decision came after a similar statement from Microsoft's Bling, er, Bing last week.
Part of their motivation might be a law currently being looked at by the Indian government to make porn illegal. However so far no one has actually told Yahoo or Microsoft to pull the plug on Indians searching for sex content online.
In fact it is possible that Yahoo and Microsoft could lose a lot of traffic from the move. The word "sex" is the most searched term on the Internet in India. If they can't get it on Yahoo or Bing they will just go to Google or some other Internet search engine.
According to the Guardian, India has some conflicted double standards about sexuality. On the one hand inexplicit sexual images are everywhere, but on the other hand most Indian people are so religious that they think it is a bad thing.
India is often rocked by Internet sex scandals. The latest involved the 86-year-old governor of Andhra Pradesh, Narayan Datt Tiwari, who was filmed in bed with three young women. He quit on Sunday, citing health reasons and still denying that the man in the video was him. But he should be happy to know that people in India won't be able to find the clip on Bing or Yahoo anymore