Short Essay for Students on Cyber Pornography
Pornography on the internet may take various forms. It may include hosting of website containing some obscene or prohibited material or use of computers for producing obscene materials. Such material tends to pervert the thinking of adolescents and corrupts their mind set.
A person who publishes or transmits or causes to be published in the electronic form any material which is lascivious, or if its effect is such as to tend to deprave or corrupt the persons who are likely to see, read or hear the matter contained or embodied in it, is liable to punishment which may extend to imprisonment upto five years and with fine, which may extend to rupees one lakh. The important ingredients of such an offence are publication and transmission through any electronic medium, of pornographic material, in any electronic form.
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It may be stated that child pornography constitutes a distinct category of cyber crime. This is committed by the use of computer and the internet by its abusers to reach and abuse children sexually throughout the world at any place. The children are targeted and trapped by the abusers and they become their victims. Pedophiles explore this chance by providing their false identity on the internet and make contact with children in chat-rooms or via e-mails where these children are chatted for giving their personal information.
The pedophiles drag children to the internet for the purpose of sexual assault so as to use them as sex object. They attract children by providing them pornographic material. Indecent exposure is also covered in this category of cyber crime.