Anyone heard about the new surveillance laws?

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the interpretation that the countercurrents author has made are novice and sensationalistic at best and bullshit at worst.

/. discussion on the same confirmed it.

Moreover, a politically biased site like countercurrents.org would be the last source I would trust for quasi-legal and technical issues.
 
I wanna live in Amsterdam now. WTF is this ????? Lets see who turns up at my door step to check my machine. There is nothing about Hollywood :bleh:
 
http://www.naavi.org/ita_2008/ITAA__2006_v1.pdf

About porn, the definition of the amendment is

67 Punishment for publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form (Amended vide ITAA 2008)
Whoever publishes or transmits or causes to be published in the electronic form, any material which is lascivious or appeals to the prurient interest or if its effect is such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it, shall be punished on first conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two three years and with fine which may extend to five lakh rupees and in the event of a second or subsequent conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years and also with fine which may extend to ten lakh rupees.
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There is no explicit mention of "viewing". Transmit is those who make it available.

Information Technology Act 2000 of India with Amendments by ITAA 2006

Read the above. Most pf what the person has mentioned in the original blog is bullshit. Drumming up paranoia.

Any person who sends, by means of a computer resource or a communication device,-

a) any information that is grossly offensive or has menacing character; or

b) any information which he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, or ill will, persistently makes by making use of such computer resource or a communication device,

c) any electronic mail or electronic mail message for the purpose of causing annoyance or inconvenience or to deceive or to mislead the addressee or recipient about the origin of such messages (Inserted vide ITAA 2008)
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That does not mean jokes.
 
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