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...
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You can see this in their rigour, quoting OpIndia, a hindu-nationalist source known for misinformation and Islamophobia (its wikipedia entry) and reduxx.info, an anti-trans news source.
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What a fucking backwater of a country. Remember also that India has so many rapes that if the news reported on every single one, you'd never hear about anything else.
The person was not convicted because the laws on child protection and internet crime that exist do not cover posessing CP while not producing it. If a law has holes, it can be ammended, it doesnt mean the hole was intentionally written to enable this crime.
Deciding to call an entire country a backwater because of the mistake some lawmakers made is just silly. Also the Supreme court thats handling the appeal in said backwater:
"How can a single judge say like this? This is atrocious," source
The holes have been apparent for ages and they are being kept open. If they fixed their laws, great, but it is a country full of sexual violence because those laws are kept broken. I will absolutely judge India on its sexual violence problem that has existed in the global spotlight for decades without improvement. It would be silly not to.
Ah yes but using vpns and e2ee email is illegal? Save the who now?
Wtf, India?
I mean, so viewing, downloading a copyrighted music/movie is legal ? It must be