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Govt puts strict controls on adult content
Suveen K Sinha / Mumbai June 06, 2007
The government’s definition of adult programming seems to be quite at variance with the commonly held one. How? Well, read on.
Broadcasters and viewers looking forward to adult content on television, which the government proposes to allow between 11 pm and 4 am, may be in for disappointment. The draft of the self-regulation guidelines for broadcasting promises to leave much of the content to imagination.
Theme 2 of the draft, covering sex, obscenity and nudity, says the audio-visual presentation of any content, even under the adult category, must not show:
Prolonged or frequent use of highly coarse language or dialogues with explicit sexual connotations.
Complete nudity with full exposure of sexual organs or full female breast(s).
Prolonged or passionate kissing on the lips or fondling of female breasts or human or animal sexual organs.
Prolonged or frequent depiction of crude or indiscreet gestures or movements or sounds, suggestive of sexual activity.
Explicit images of sexual activity or sexual perversions or violence including rape, molestation, etc.
Pornography
Even the depiction of violence is sought to be limited. The guidelines say that while the overall theme, storyline and characterisation may justify one or more specific scenes of crime or violence, the subject-matter and treatment of such content under all categories should not, among other things, present violence as glamorous or as an acceptable solution to human conflict.
However, the draft seeks to make a break with Article 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), a 144-year-old law, which declares anal and non-procreative sex “against the order of nature” and a crime even if undertaken in private by consenting adults.
Although, the draft does appear to count homosexuality among “perverted or socially unacceptable practices”, it is willing to allow its depiction under the adult category.
The code for self-regulation is the first move towards establishing a system in the broadcasting industry, which has of late seen bans imposed on certain channels for showing objectionable content.
It could be a part of the new Broadcast Regulation Bill, that is likely to be introduced in Parliament during the monsoon session. It is being circulated among industry players, seeking their comments.
It puts programmes into nine categories and prescribes the do’s and don’ts for each.
Govt puts strict controls on adult content
Suveen K Sinha / Mumbai June 06, 2007
The government’s definition of adult programming seems to be quite at variance with the commonly held one. How? Well, read on.
Broadcasters and viewers looking forward to adult content on television, which the government proposes to allow between 11 pm and 4 am, may be in for disappointment. The draft of the self-regulation guidelines for broadcasting promises to leave much of the content to imagination.
Theme 2 of the draft, covering sex, obscenity and nudity, says the audio-visual presentation of any content, even under the adult category, must not show:
Prolonged or frequent use of highly coarse language or dialogues with explicit sexual connotations.
Complete nudity with full exposure of sexual organs or full female breast(s).
Prolonged or passionate kissing on the lips or fondling of female breasts or human or animal sexual organs.
Prolonged or frequent depiction of crude or indiscreet gestures or movements or sounds, suggestive of sexual activity.
Explicit images of sexual activity or sexual perversions or violence including rape, molestation, etc.
Pornography
Even the depiction of violence is sought to be limited. The guidelines say that while the overall theme, storyline and characterisation may justify one or more specific scenes of crime or violence, the subject-matter and treatment of such content under all categories should not, among other things, present violence as glamorous or as an acceptable solution to human conflict.
However, the draft seeks to make a break with Article 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), a 144-year-old law, which declares anal and non-procreative sex “against the order of nature” and a crime even if undertaken in private by consenting adults.
Although, the draft does appear to count homosexuality among “perverted or socially unacceptable practices”, it is willing to allow its depiction under the adult category.
The code for self-regulation is the first move towards establishing a system in the broadcasting industry, which has of late seen bans imposed on certain channels for showing objectionable content.
It could be a part of the new Broadcast Regulation Bill, that is likely to be introduced in Parliament during the monsoon session. It is being circulated among industry players, seeking their comments.
It puts programmes into nine categories and prescribes the do’s and don’ts for each.
Govt puts strict controls on adult content
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guys dream over for adult watchers.......... bad news
coolbuddy_79
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:rofl: adult content :rofl:they should just browse through some kid's mobile and they'd know that even kids r pretty ahead them 
:rofl:
:rofl:The introduction of a code of conduct for television content will not necessarily constitute a breach of the right to freedom of expression enshrined in the Constitution. How the code is administered is what may lead to unconstitutional conduct on the part of the government.
The guaranteed freedom of speech and expression is tempered by right of Parliament and government to make laws that impose reasonable restrictions. A code of conduct that works as a tool of moral (pun unintended) suasion to encourage television channels to adopt best practices will not by any stretch constitute a violation of the right to freedom of expression.
However, a code of conduct that has hurtful penal consequences (for instance, signals being yanked off air) can lead to unconstitutional control by government. Merely because a law is constitutional, and therefore legitimate, it would not automatically represent a good-to-have law. TADA, POTA, MISA were all constitutional laws, but turned out to be ill-advised legislation.
News gathering and dissemination is clearly an area that ought not to be fettered with state-driven regulation. By definition, the media ought to be able to have a healthy irreverence for government in order that the media can discharge its true role. Entertainment too is a very important form of expression and the businesses of news and entertainment are converging.
It is true that in any industry, market players have to evolve a best-practices code to deal with how they conduct business. Mostly, regulation tends to flow into areas where self-regulation is non-existent or fails. With television content, modern technology such as access control provides self-regulation tools not only at the level of the content recipient but also at the content provider’s end.
If the television content code could be used to put a television channel out of business, it ought to be unwelcome. If the code could be used to shame a prurient television channel and leave it to the viewers to make an informed decision on whether they want to view it, it would be a tolerable law. This is how television content is regulated in mature democracies such as the UK (see how that country handled the Shilpa Shetty controversy).
S Sundaresan
Partner, J Sagar Associates
Since you, the post-globalisation-getting-smarter-by-the-day new Indian generation, are currently busy taking on the world, I am taking on the responsibility of making the recently proposed content code for broadcasting more comprehensible for you. Here goes:
No demeaning remarks on the physical or personal attributes of a national leader on TV anymore. (The Orkut communities on President Kalam’s hairdo can stay though.)
Crime shall not be glamourised. (It’s the end of the era of potato chips-with-Nithari killings evenings. Instead, check out the latest PS3 which has some realtime gore!)
TV code violates right to expression-Editorial-Opinion-The Economic Times
The guaranteed freedom of speech and expression is tempered by right of Parliament and government to make laws that impose reasonable restrictions. A code of conduct that works as a tool of moral (pun unintended) suasion to encourage television channels to adopt best practices will not by any stretch constitute a violation of the right to freedom of expression.
However, a code of conduct that has hurtful penal consequences (for instance, signals being yanked off air) can lead to unconstitutional control by government. Merely because a law is constitutional, and therefore legitimate, it would not automatically represent a good-to-have law. TADA, POTA, MISA were all constitutional laws, but turned out to be ill-advised legislation.
News gathering and dissemination is clearly an area that ought not to be fettered with state-driven regulation. By definition, the media ought to be able to have a healthy irreverence for government in order that the media can discharge its true role. Entertainment too is a very important form of expression and the businesses of news and entertainment are converging.
It is true that in any industry, market players have to evolve a best-practices code to deal with how they conduct business. Mostly, regulation tends to flow into areas where self-regulation is non-existent or fails. With television content, modern technology such as access control provides self-regulation tools not only at the level of the content recipient but also at the content provider’s end.
If the television content code could be used to put a television channel out of business, it ought to be unwelcome. If the code could be used to shame a prurient television channel and leave it to the viewers to make an informed decision on whether they want to view it, it would be a tolerable law. This is how television content is regulated in mature democracies such as the UK (see how that country handled the Shilpa Shetty controversy).
S Sundaresan
Partner, J Sagar Associates
Since you, the post-globalisation-getting-smarter-by-the-day new Indian generation, are currently busy taking on the world, I am taking on the responsibility of making the recently proposed content code for broadcasting more comprehensible for you. Here goes:
No demeaning remarks on the physical or personal attributes of a national leader on TV anymore. (The Orkut communities on President Kalam’s hairdo can stay though.)
Crime shall not be glamourised. (It’s the end of the era of potato chips-with-Nithari killings evenings. Instead, check out the latest PS3 which has some realtime gore!)
TV code violates right to expression-Editorial-Opinion-The Economic Times
