Two lakh fine for Net cafe porn- The Times of India
Two lakh fine for Net cafe porn- The Times of India LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government has banned surfing of pornographic websites at cyber cafes. Offenders will face heavy fines and jail. Uttar Pradesh IT Minister Veerendra Singh said that cyber cafes would have to install equipment that prevents logging on to any adult site. "There should be a master video-display to monitor all computers by the cyber cafe owner," Singh told IANS. All district magistrates and superintendents of police have been informed of the ban and asked to conduct surprise raids. Offenders can be fined up to Rs 2,00,000 and jailed for 10 years. First-time violators face a fine of up to Rs 1,00,000 and imprisonment for five years. District officials have been asked to maintain a dossier of all cyber cafes. Earlier, the government had ordered that cabins and partitions in cyber cafes be pulled down for stricter scrutiny.
'Andher nagri chaupa raja'instead of posing permanent threat to cafe owners It would be better to just shut down all the cafe in U.P..by dictating terms that what would be sitting arrangement in a cafe is a open attack on business.govt. is trying to impose all responsiblity of user's activity on cafe owner.checking harddisk for mpg,avi,mpeg,wmv,asf,bpm,jpg,jpeg files after every user is not a possible job.technically banning all such sites/material is not possible.for some extent it must be done by ISP,whih have more technical resourses than a cafe owner.
ReplyDeleteit's irony that watching porn in home is legal and doing it in cyber cafe is illegal.