The question of child pornography was raised in the Parliament and the Government had to come out with its reply on how it was trying to control child pornography relayed by various websites. In order to check online child pornography, Government has initiated steps to devise a mechanism to access Interpol’s ‘worst-of-list’ through CBI and disable such content on internet. Union Minister for IT, Ravi Shankar Prashad told Parliament that while the government was taking step to control child pornography, yet it was a highly technical matter to stop it completely because such footages are encrypted and cannot be removed easily. The government has asked the technical department for upgrading of their infrastructure and technology so as to address the shortcomings with regard to identifying and blocking encrypted websites. The difficulty is that if a particular website known to be carrying child pornography content is blocked, they re-introduce it under a different name. However, knowing that child pornography was damaging to the society, the Government would be taking all precautionary measures to eliminate it. In this matter, we think that cooperation of the people is of paramount importance. Parents have to be careful and watching that their children are not misled. Moreover, ‘https’ websites with encrypted content are used to transmit the pornographic content which makes filtering difficult as the data is encrypted. Therefore, the tools provide filtering to a limited extent only. The tools, in the process may also filter genuine content and degrade the performance of systems. The Union Minister has given complete picture of how the websites with child pornographic content are difficult to be contained and notwithstanding that, the government is taking steps to curb the damaging trend. We strongly believe that this is a matter in which all stakeholders have to make their contribution.
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