What the fuck.

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.

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.

Fucking India man I swear

100% chance the high court judge has this exact content on his computer.

Everyday my country finds a new way to be regressive.

Hopefully I can leave it as early as possible.

matt gaetz buying plane tickets there as we speak

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Well, that's disappointing...

Coming to this thread after seeing lemmites defend AI generated child porn is a tonal whiplash I wasn't expecting.

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.