The Telangana government is thinking over blocking 1500 porn portals and 5000 Facebook pages. IT minister KT Rama Rao said that the state government wants to hit at adult content which is the root cause of increase in rape cases and other gender violence across the state.
The committee to review women safety in Telangana, constituted by chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, suggested that viewing porn is a major contributor to crime against women and recommended blocking of obscene content that is easily available online.
After sending a list of 1,500 porn websites to the state government to be forwarded to the Centre for blocking them, CID is also writing to Facebook seeking to block 5,000 pages as part of its efforts to crack down on people and organizations making money through online publication of obscene content, black mail and extortion.
“Young adolescents are most vulnerable to online porn causing a psychological conflict between social values and desire, which leads the young generation into sex, drugs and other addictions says a police expert.
The Telangana government had got the DoT to issue directions to all ISPs to block the porn website www.tspolice.com which embarrassed state police, but still private ISPs like Bharati Airtel Ltd and Tata Communications are yet to execute them, say police sources.