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Road Blocked!

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"Full stop" for phone sex

service. As VSNL, the international telephony provider, has blocked access to some

international sex numbers from India. It was not an overnight effort. DoT and MTNL, which

had taken cognizance of such numbers for sometime, had been requesting VSNL to tackle this

for some time now. Finally, this has come through. And it is for the first time that a

central cabinet minister announced the decision in a news conference.

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Nobody needs a guessing for the reason.

"Stopping poisoning adolescent minds," said Sushma Swaraj, the union

communications minister. Or is it, as media reports allege, an action triggered by

shooting bills especially from the government offices across the country. Steps to check

this, if reports are true, are not a mean step either. What is more important is the act

of checking and implementation. VSNL has set up a special cell which will scan newspapers

and identify such numbers—usually which change to some other number once they get

blocked—and monitor the blockage process.

Kudos to the effort. But

what would be the sign board? "Road Blocked, No Diversion Please" or "Road

Diverted"! The latter is a possibility, especially when porno is being easily

accessed at a much lower cost through Internet. "The stop poisoning of adolescent

minds" on the WWW medium ... is there a way out!

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  • color="#000000">E-commerce transactions by the year 2002 are expected to be worth $400

    billion.
  • The $400 billion business on-line by 2002 would equal

    a 1997-2002 compound annual growth rate of 103 percent.
  • Number of people with access to WWW in the same

    timeframe are expected to be 320 million.

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