The Union ministry of information technology banned the pornographic comic-strip website on June 3 without an official announcement or notification.
"We are talking to our lawyers and trying to figure out our options," savitabhabhi.com administrator Deshmukh told xbiznewswire.com. "The initial reaction is that since the site does not pose any threat to India's national security and is not illegal, it must be against international law to block it. However, we are still working on the legal angle."
Under the recently amended IT Act, the government can ban websites that do not subscribe to norms of public decency and morality on the web.
A senior IT ministry official told DNA, "The site was banned in the first week of June under the act. This is not censorship."
Hello, how is this not censorship?!? Banning a website (or a book or any other information source) is the very definition of censorship.
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