High Court In India Rules That Viewing, Downloading Child Porn Is Not A Crime - The Publica
High Court In India Rules That Viewing, Downloading Child Porn Is Not A Crime - The Publica
The Supreme Court of India is hearing arguments from child protection organizations after the Madras High Court ruled that downloading and watching child pornography is not a criminal offense. In January, the High Court dismissed charges against 28-year-old S. Harish, who was caught in possession of...
What the fuck.
The only appropriate response to have.
During Supreme Court proceedings, HS. Phoolka, who represented the child advocacy groups, noted that Harish had constantly watched the video over the course of two years.
In case anyone thinks the ruling is actually about "accidental" downloads
Yeah, it's not even just a sensationalist headline. It's what they ruled. How are we supposed to reconcile this with the rest of the world? I'm genuinely asking. How do you include a country with leadership like this in the future of the world? Someone enlighten me.
A more important headline is that there currently are not laws in place to outlaw the possession and viewing of child pornography. It shouldn’t be up to the court to set a precedent of its illegality, but rather a clear law making it illegal.
It seems there is an amendment in the POSCO act for this situation but somehow it is not being enforced properly. Maybe the amendment is poorly wordly¿? I am not a lawyer though so I might be wrong
... In good company.
No trouble at all if everyone else is doing it. I mean, it's not like only Epstein had an island...
So let me get this straight. My county banned most of the popular porn sites because of the negative influence it can have on the populace but has such a poorly written and enforced law that people who possess and watch CSAM are deemed to be not breaking the law. What the actual fuck is going on here. This is a dangerous precedent being set here and I can only hope that supreme court overrules the case and holds the guy guilty.
Remember to vote against BJP. India has a beautiful culture and a lot of the Indian students I met in college were really amiable, thoughtful people, but BJP is ruining it.
Fucking India man I swear
Calm down. Have some cow urine.
From the sacred
chalicecowlice
Everyday my country finds a new way to be regressive.
Hopefully I can leave it as early as possible.
Good luck mate, South Asia in general is fucked and they're all busy one upping each other on the fucked up list. You're better off abandoning ship to some other place.
matt gaetz buying plane tickets there as we speak
matt gaetz
buying plane ticketsapplying for citizenship there as we speakftfy
I mean…
looks at sexual assault rates in india
…yep, par for the course. Guess which country will be uninhabitable by 2040-2050s too.
Don’t need to be a racist about it, but just know that problem will not just go away and will require robust infrastructure and strong mental health care to handle properly.
There's always the chance they'll end up starting a nuclear war with Pakistan. I wouldn't put it past Modi to nuke India.
Gandhi always nukes first
I thought it might just have been about a badly worded law, but no, at least from the translation given, the law seems pretty clear, and the opinion from the court seems extremely strange.
They, or someone they know, most likely sitting on gb's of the stuff.
Madras High Court Judge N. Anand Venkatesh also noted that it was “done in privacy without affecting or influencing anyone else.”
ummm, how about the child sexual abuse victim? bad enough the misogyny and oppression of women's rights that comes with right wing religion everywhere, RSS/BJP certainly playing their part. the child dude, think of the child.
India has been taken over by backwards-ass right wing religious fundamentalists.
India "became the world leader in internet blackouts", straight up government control. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/25/a-tool-of-political-control-how-india-became-the-world-leader-in-internet-blackouts?
Horrific violence covered up in Manipur on the minority christian community. The country is sliding into some barbaric behavior. https://www.wired.com/story/internet-shutdown-manipur-burning-in-the-dark/
Since May 4, the Indian government has shut off the internet in Manipur, giving cover to murders, rapes, and arson.
Every day I learn something new about contemporary India, I turn a little more dissapointed.
The Supreme Court of India’s debate on child pornography’s potential semi-legalization comes amid an ongoing debate in the nation regarding the criminal status of marital rape. According to Supreme Court Observer, a decision is currently pending to determine if marital rape will be made legal in the country, as it is currently not considered a crime in situations where the raped “wife” is not a minor.
Yeah, no. Fuck this country and every single person who stands by this shit.
It's entirely possible most people live in a jurisdiction with similar laws. I'm not saying it's good, but I'm saying this is Earth and you can only set your standards for evil so high.
Coming to this thread after seeing lemmites defend AI generated child porn is a tonal whiplash I wasn't expecting.
I'll huff the copium and assume it's good that we're not all just a hive mind.
I'm just going to assume the "Lemmings" they're talking about was one dude that hasn't been banned yet
That's a perfectly reasonable response to the issue of pineapple on pizza.
I suppose the feeling is that no actual children are harmed in making AI porn. It's still something that sexualises kids though so I'm not sure how valid that argument is.
Well, that's disappointing...
weird how fascists consistently do this shit. Or maybe its not given how often they like to exert power over people who they see as lessers.
India superpower 2020
Seriously India?
Wow.....I have no words
Maybe some of the worst kinds of sex offenders in America will see this article and move to India. I feel bad for people who accidentally click on something bad, but I have no pity for people who go looking for those types of images and whatnot, online. As far as I’m concerned, some foreign country, like India, can have them.
Nonces on the high court.
there's like a 98% chance that that judges hard drive definitely has some sick stuff on it