No internet sex please, we're Indian.

[Sam]

A Guardian investigation has discovered that several internet companies have quietly introduced filters to prevent Indian users from accessing sexual content.

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This is a worrying trend that we're seeing more and more of. Filters and censorship being introduced regulate access to sexual material. Not illegal material just everyday sexual material. The kind of stuff I look at just about everyday.

I live in hope that people will one day understand that sex does not mean evil. Sex is beautiful and the most natural thing, let's celebrate it not continue down this road of inhibition and denial.

[matahari]

Isn't this another example of the Big Brother attitude of many governments? I'll bet the ISPs didn't think of this themselves. It seems that those in charge of us have to save us from ourselves!

[china_man]

I am in China and personally have to sign into my VPN just to access several websites, let alone anything sexual. I just read how the Chinese government is now hiring several more stay at home moms to search the internet for pornography and report them to the authorities. Then another artical years ago how the CN government has over 25,000 employees working for the great firewall. Kind of funny, I asked my Chinese friend whether he knows what happened in Beijing in 1989 at that Tianmen Square. He said 100 or so people got together and suicide. Oh I just shook my head with how the Chinese cover up widely spread news that went international.

[Sasha]

Yes, Matahari, is right - Big Brother is watching. And what is the hope that the people of these nations will be able to fight back against censorship? Slim to none since they have little voice as far as their government is concerned.

[snowman]

They just cannot differ sex materials from porn. I can understand if they filter porn websites, but sex materials for educational purposes are not only legal but also necessary. They don't have good reasons to filter it.

[matahari]

What one person considers acceptable may for another seem like porn though. It has always been so. You only have to look back at which books were banned reading years ago in schools and libraries, some of which are now required reading!