'Why censor Facebook when you don't censor Sunny Leone?'

Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) young leader Anurag Singh Thakur wonders why the government wants to censor social media like Facebook when it is not "censoring Sunny Leone", an Indo-Canadian porn performer who is a rage on the popular television show Bigg Boss.

"Why do they want to censor Facebook, when they don't censor Sunny Leone," Thakur asked a day after Communications Minister Kapil Sibal advocated screening of inflammatory or offensive content on social networking sites.

"Thousands of children are searching for her on internet and getting connected to porn sites," Thakur told IANS on the sidelines of a conference on effective legislatures organised by PRS Legislative Research.

On Tuesday Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor who had Tuesday "rejected" censorship for socal media, however, said that after an expostulation from his colleague Kapil Sibal he felt some restriction was needed as Indian politics and society was not as mature as in the West.

"I talked to Kapil Sibal, he told me that there were inflammatory images of gods, goddesses, prophets. When I saw those, I felt there is a problem. Free speech in India is not the same as in the West," he said at the conference.

"If certain people see these images, it can cause violence, we don't have a democracy so mature that we can ignore such things. So certain amount of restraint is necessary," he said.

Sibal had Tuesday said the government will not allow social networking sites to host "objectionable" content and will take steps to screen and remove these.

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