Kamlesh Vaswani, the lawyer whose efforts led to a brief ban of hundreds of pornographic websites (called #PornBan), is back. This time, he's representing a 16-year-old from Kota, Rajasthan, filing an affidavit, as LiveLaw reported, in the Supreme Court demanding a total ban on online pornography. The student, Akash Narwala, is a self-described anti-rape activist who says he was "disgusted" by his classmates and juniors browsing porn online, after which he sought out Vaswani. Here are some interesting excerpts from the affidavit: Pornographic Videos, films and pictures are easily accessible through the internet now-a-days and as a result, I have observed that kids of my age i.e., teenagers are getting distracted and addicted to watching porn which is detrimental for their progress. Curiously, the affidavit seems to define 'child pornography' as the act of children watching porn, as opposed to pornography featuring minors. Child Pornography is banned throughout the world. Children below the age of eighteen are addicted to watching porn. A Child watching Hard Core Porn is not desirable for the proper growth of personality of that particular Child. So, this aspect of Child as a viewer of porn has to be dealt with as urgently as a child as an actor ... Children of my age i.e. teenagers are getting distracted by porn and their minds are becoming perverted and corrupted. This is one sentence: The easy availability of porn by way of internet leads to children i.e. teenagers to go astray from their studies and other recreational activities, and children…
