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Why the Chief Justice of India is wrong about Porn

Yesterday, the Chief Justice of India, Mr KG Balakrishna suggested that the government should impose a ban on websites that exclusively display pornography. He didn’t stop there, he threw websites that publish hate speeches in the same basket. In India pornography has been illegal for a long time, courtesy of the “not in our culture” card. The questions here are fundamental: Does an Indian adult need cultural policing?