Doctor doctor, gave me the news
Im always scrounging around for the lesser seen news items. Somethign I found reported in The Times is an absoulte gold mine. Life in prision for running a porn website.
A doctor has become the first person ever convicted under the ‘Information Technology Act’. He has also had his medical licens revoked. The judge in the case claimed life in prision was nessasary because the crimes were ‘not of ordinary nature’ and it was ‘a function of law to preserve public morals and decency’. Three acomplences were given 7 year prision terms each.
After a bit of googling I found the names of the websites in question. They have long since been taken offline but the wayback machine still had archived copies. By all observation they were fairly straightfoward porn. No snuff. No rape. No kids. No ducks. Just plain ol vanilia fucking.
That wasent how it was spun however. Related news articls I found pulled out all the usual buzzwords. The college girls appering in the videos were instead called by one source as being ‘young children’. The modeling fee got reported by several sources as ‘lured with promises of money’. Out of town filming became ‘detained at a remote location’. And no smear campaign would be compleet without an acusation of hoarding weapons. The headline ‘police find machine gun components at sexual preadators residence’ just sopunds so much more chilling and frightning than ‘cops find hunting rifle on guys farm’.
And the real kicker? The law that he was convicted under dosent cover the juristiction of where the website was hosted nor where the domain name was regestered. Anyone dowloading the porn was dowloading it legally. But because the porn was filmed at a location that was covered in the laws juristiction, that was enough to put the doctor in jail for life. The ruling judge saying that ‘morality of the community was as essential’ dosent make much sense when the comunity in question is the internet.
Now there are a few scattred reports that the porn involved medical fetish. The old archived copies of the websites I viewed didnt show any so I suspect that it was just assumed by the press to be medical fetish because the webmaster was a doctor. But even if there was medical fetish, its not like ‘playing doctor’ is a fetish that is all that out of the ordnary.
The case also involved acusations of rape. However, the doctor was found not guilty. This would imply that the women were not filmed againt thier will, but actualy were porn actresses after all. Some news reports lead me to believe that the way the guy got caught was because a former model felt regret and tried to claim she was forced.
Not a single mention of this case is being reported by Adult Video News. You would think they would be the first to be shouting that this doctor is getting railroaded. Electromic Frontiers Foundation is strangly silent as well. Where is there usual screams that the freedom of the internet is being opressed. National Coliation for Sexual Freedom hasent said a word. Shouldent they be giving a longwinded rant abotu how medical fetish is being demonized. And probably most importantly, why isnt Human Rights Campaign freaking out over those nasty right wing christians pusing their views of morality and comunity decency off onto everyone else.
Well, I said I saw the report in The Times. But what I didnt say was that it was The Times of India. The doctor who got life in jail for running a porn website was L Prakash and he lives in Kalanchikuppam.