Now a mobile app will help block porn sites in India.
The Institute of Medical Sciences at Banaras Hindu University (IMS-BHU) have developed a mobile app, ‘Har Har Mahadev’ which plays devotional songs and inspirational speeches by personalities like Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela when one tries to open a porn site.
Dr Vijay Nath Mishra, a professor of neurology at IMS-BHU developed this ‘website-blocker’ app to block pornography, violence and vulgar content circulating on the internet, The Times of India reports.
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“When I decided to develop this app, I had my children and family in mind and my patients who come in with behavioural problems. Devotional songs praising God will play if anyone tries to open a porn site. Addiction to pornography cannot be treated but this is a humble attempt at changing one’s behaviour,” Dr Mishra was quoted as saying by The Indian Express.
He added, “As of now, the app contains Hindu devotional songs. Within a month, it will contain songs and prayers suited to the Muslim community, so that it could be comfortably used by members of all religions.”
“We have named it ‘Har Har Mahadev’ because the name of Shiva will destroy all evil,” he said.
The app which took six months to develop, can block about 3,800 identified sites and there are plans to update this list regularly.
