Last week, a Reddit India thread, disclosed strong reaction from netizens on porn websites being inaccessible and are either showing a blank page or the message, “The site has been blocked as per the instructions of Competent Authority.”
Users of MTNL, BSNL and ACT broadband have claimed that porn websites aren’t opening on their systems whereas Airtel, Tata Photon and cable internet users are not facing any such issues. According toLegally India, on one of Delhi’s broadband providers Spectranet, 11 out of the world’s 13 most popular porn sites were inaccessible.
When we tried verifying it on an MTNL Mumbai connection and popular sites such as Pornhub and Youporn would not open. It seemed like the service provider had blocked sites with terms such as ‘porn’ in its title.
