Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers Association of India, told the newspaper.
“Why should an Internet service provider be punished if a website suddenly transmits child pornography?”
The reason for the ban was never entirely clear.
The ban was most likely made under Section 69A of India’s IT Act.
Countries like India have always had a complicated relationship with pornography.
Talking about sex is, beyond the expanding but still minority urban middle class, still taboo.
Porn site Pornhub last year revealed that India was its fifth-largest market.
Both laws werestruck down as unconstitutionalby the nation’s Supreme Court.
