Namaste, no porn please

Online access to pornography is usually very restricted in Eastern culture, especially in India, China, Korea, and Singapore. As India’s government just recently passed law and enacted Information Technology Act of 2000 that criminalizes online pornography, several top sites incl. Bing and Yahoo started to limit users’ access to pornographic materials. As guardian.co.uk wrote “The Yahoo search engine and Flickr photo-sharing site (owned by Yahoo) altered their sites earlier this month to prevent users in India from switching off the safe-search facility. The block also applies to users in Singapore, Hong Kong and Korea.” After Bing launch in late May,... http://tinyurl.com/ydstnjp