Why safe internet not provided for children?
The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain in four weeks why it should not be directed to provide safe internet for children and block websites containing objectionable content including pornography, sexually explicit material and graphic games.
In the rule, the court also asked the government to show cause as to why they should not be ordered to constitute a body to ensure safe internet for children and to monitor and remove the objectionable sites.
Secretaries to the ministries of posts, telecommunications and information technology, home, law, education, social welfare, and health; Bangladesh Telecommunication and Regulatory Commission’s chairman; and mobile network operators have been made respondents to the rule.
The HC bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and Justice KM Kamrul Kader came up with the rule following a writ petition filed by Advocate Mohammad Kamal Hossain seeking necessary order.
Hossain said in the petition that the trend of crimes including murder and rape has increased due to widespread exposure to objectionable websites and therefore such content need to be blocked.
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