BJP leaders feel the need for censoring Sunny Leone

Ever since our Government has expressed his thoughts of censoring social media sites like Facebook, BJP leaders have raised their brows wondering why Government wants to repress social media when it is not censoring the Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone who is now on family television and is hogging a lot of limelight.

Kapil Sibal states our society is ‘not as mature as in the West’ while Anurag Singh Thakur asks, “Why do they want to censor Facebook, when they don’t censor Sunny Leone?”

A day after Communications Minister Kapil Sibal advocated screening of inflammatory or offensive content on social networking sites, Thakur said at a conference on effective legislatures organised by PRS Legislative Research, “Thousands of children are searching for her on internet and getting connected to porn sites.”

Thakur added that social media was a platform for common expression and should be allowed to grow and become mature. “Social media should be given time to get mature.There are options like watermarking.”