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I&B Banned 18 OTT Platform, 19 Website... Nationwide Minister Anurag Thakur said


On March 14, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting banned 18 OTT platforms in India, along with 19 websites, 10 apps (7 from Google Play Store and 3 from Apple Store), and 57 social media sites ( 12 pages of Facebook, 17 pages of Instagram, 16 Twitter Handles and 12 YouTube channels) related to these platforms and apps. 

The list of 18 banned OTT platforms are as including Dreams films, Fugi, XtraMood, Besharams, Nexonx VIP,  ChiooFlix, Yessma, Rabbit, Prime play, X Prime, Tri Flicks, Voovi, Mojflix, Uncut Adda, Hunters, Hot shots VIP, NueFlicks.

The reason for banning these sites is their obscene and objectionable content in which women are shown in a wrong way. And apart from student-teacher relationship, shameful and Vulagar content on family relation.

These sites have already been warned many times by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting regarding obscene content. As a result, due to lack of improvement and ignorance on this, now these sites had to be completely banned from India.

In the past too, complaints have been received many times from MP, Intellectuals and social workers regarding Obscene content of OTT platforms.

These websites were blocked due to Violate Indian IT Act 1986 due to indecent representation of women. There are Intermediaries Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code rules 2000 to check and monitor the content of OTT platforms, according to which if any broadcasting or OTT platform violates these guidelines then the platforms will be punished and may be blocked under Section 67, 67A and 67B of this Act. 

Minister of I&B Anurag Thakur said that "These OTT platforms extensively utilised social media to disseminate trailers, specific scenes, and external links aimed at attracting audiences to their websites and apps,".

Of these OTT platforms, one platform has more than 10 million downloads in Google Play Store, the other 2 Platform has more than 5 million downloads, and has 32 lakh followers including on social sites. These platforms also provide external links, dissesminated trailers, specific scenes on social media sites for their promotion and advertising.






In another statement, Anurag Thakur  said, “A significant portion of the content hosted on these platforms was found to be obscene, vulgar, and portrayed women in a demeaning manner. It depicted nudity and sexual acts in various inappropriate contexts, such as relationships between teachers and students, incestuous family relationships, etc. The content included sexual innuendos and, in some instances, prolonged segments of pornographic and sexually explicit scenes devoid of any thematic or societal relevance."


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