IAAF protests against ‘Sunny Leone videos’ promoted by Mobile Companies

The Indian Artistes and Actors Forum (IAAF) have strongly protested against the SMS and flash message promotion of adult porn star Sunny Leone’s videos by certain mobile companies. In a letter addressed to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, the Ministry of Company Affairs and the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, IAAF spokesperson Flynn Remedios has stated that certain mobile operators in India are indirectly promoting a porn actress Sunny Leone – a participant on the recently concluded reality show Bigg Boss Season 5 on TV channel Colors by promoting her videos.

“While it is not sure if the video content promoted directly includes porn or adult videos, we strongly object to this SMS and flash message campaign unleashed by certain mobile phone operators in India. The content servers are not located in India and the links on these WAP and mobile internet websites can also point to Sunny Leone’s other adult web content including her personal website which is a pay and use hard core porn site offering videos and other photographic content,” said Flynn Remedios of the IAAF adding that Sunny Leone is a porn star and promoting Sunny Leone indirectly accounts to promoting pornography which is explicitly forbidden by Indian laws.

This comes in the wake of the recent approval of the central government to prosecute and summon international social networking websites like Facebook, Orkut and search giant Google for promoting objectionable content which offends the religious sentiments of certain sections of society.