Indians find way to watch porn even after Porn Ban in the country

NP NEWS 24 ONLINE – Last month, the Indian government asked telcos to ban 827 porn websites, and judging by what users are reporting it seems they’re actually putting the ban into effect. However, Indians aren’t giving up and users are finding easy ways to circumvent the major porn block.

While some users are finding alternative links, others are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) or proxy services like ‘hide.me’ to access these sites. There are even specific browsers like UC browser, where the banned sites are working. Interestingly, Pornhub launched its own VPN back in May— which is truly helpful in these trying times.

Users are also getting help from companies affected by the ban. Right after the ban, one of the biggest adult content sites PornHub launched a new domain called pornhub.net. The site also said that watching porn privately is not illegal in India and its ready to work with the government so that users can enjoy the legal adult content. The company said that India is the third largest consumer of its content.

An order from the Uttarakhand High Court last month instructed all internet service providers in the country to take “immediate necessary action for blocking 827 websites” that hosted pornographic content.

To get around this, Pornhub set up a’mirror’ website that uses a web domain not included in the list of banned sites, allowing Indian-based users to continue to access adult content from the popular pornography website.

PornHub said in a statement that the latest ban poses a risk to web browsers in India who will be forced to seek content from untrusted websites.

“There are no laws against pornography in India and watching adult content privately. It’s evident that the Indian government does not have a solution to a very serious and systemic problem in the country, and is using adult sites like ours as a scapegoat,” said Corey Price, VP, Pornhub.

“This is apparent by the fact that they only banned large sites like Pornhub’s, and didn’t block thousands of risky porn sites that may contain illegal content. For the government to ban sites like ours that have compliant parental controls, a non-consensual take down page and a strict Terms of Service is a disservice to the people of India, who have become one of the largest connoisseurs of adult content.”