Child Pornography Ban Part of Rajya Sabha Panel's Crackdown Plan
Days after Bihar CM Nitish Kumar appealed to the central government to ban all porn sites and accused it for the rising incidents of sexual crime against women, reports are coming that panel of senior Rajya Sabha MPs may suggest to curb child pornography and related contents.
New Delhi, December 24: Days after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar appealed to the central government to ban all porn sites and accused it for the rising incidents of sexual crime against women, reports are coming that panel of senior Rajya Sabha MPs may suggest to curb child pornography and related contents to curtail the access of pornographic material to children.
According to a report, published in the Hindustan Times, the informal panel has been constituted by Rajya Sabha chairman Venkaiah Naidu last month and comprise of senior leaders from 10 political parties to looking forward to
significantly improve their enforcement of laws to ban child pornographic content and the availability of pornography to children. Porn Sites Should Be Banned in India as They Instigate Sexual Violence Against Women: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Writes to PM Narendra Modi.
The decision to form a panel on the related subject was done after it was raised by AIADMK’s Vijila Sathyanath in Rajya Sabha on November 28. The constituted panel already held two meetings and interacted with a number of people. They include Facebook, WhatsApp and Tiktok, telecom regulator TRAI, and the National Commission For Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR).
Informing more about the latest development, a member of the panel said, as the daily quotes, "The draft report is being prepared. We are likely to recommend in the report that India must take a leadership role and constitute an international alliance against child porn in the lines of a solar alliance. Such an international alliance can even think of creating an organisation like Interpol to exclusively tackle child pornography and access of pornographic materials to children."
Earlier on December 17, Bihar CM had written to the Narendra Modi government, "It will be my request to take appropriate action to ban all porn sites and inappropriate content available on internet immediately after giving due consideration to the serious issue." Kumar had urged Prime Minister to ban all 'porn sites and inappropriate content' available online.
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