India porn ban lifted

Ben Mathis-Lilley has a Slate article about changes in India's internet:

In what is being hailed as the greatest triumph of popular will and freedom since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Indian authorities have lifted a ban on 857 pornographic websites that had been instituted on 30 July 2015. From the Times of India:

The government has been feeling the heat for the past few days for being viewed as control freaks with an objectionable streak of moral policing. On Tuesday, IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad called a meeting to review the apparently knee-jerk decision to ban nearly nine hundred sites that were listed by a petitioner who had gone to the Supreme Court against pornographic websites.
It was left to the bureaucrats to implement the embarrassing turnaround of the government.

Activist Kamlesh Vaswani, who compiled the list of blocked websites and has said that pornography is more harmful than Hitler, AIDS, and nuclear war, does not appear to have commented on the reversal.

Rico says he's never known pornography to kill you, unlike AIDS and Hitler...