Pornography in India is restricted and illegal in all form including print media, electronic media, and digital media (OTT). Hosting, displaying, uploading, modifying, publishing, transmitting, storing, updating or sharing pornography is illegal in India.India's Supreme Court said, OTT regulation is a necessity as some OTT even showing nudity, obscenity and even porn, because of the absence of any proper rules and regulation.On 22 August 2023, Government of India assured that it will bring rules and regulation to check vulgar and obscene content on social media and OTT platforms.On 10 November 2023, MIB India introduces the 'Broadcasting Service Regulation Bill', Which will regulate the content of OTT platforms with programme code and content evaluation committee, who will check the content and provide the certificate for every content before publishing online. Currently consultation is ongoing on this bill till 15 January 2024.On 14 March 2024, MIB India has banned 18 OTT apps from Google play store and suspended their all 57 social media accounts including Facebook ID, Instagram ID, YouTube channel etc and closed 19 streaming websites. I&B ministry said that, these OTT platforms were making vulgar and obscene content with nudity and unethical storyline. And some of them were showing even Softporn and porn as a webseries, and they all were violating the IT Rules 2021, IT Act section 292, 293, section 67 A and Indecent representation of women (prohibition) act. The banned platform were MoodX, Prime Play, Hunters, Besharams, Rabbit movies, Voovi, Fugi, Mojflix, Chikooflix, Nuefliks, Xtramood, Neon X VIP, X Prime, Tri Flicks, Uncut Adda, Dreams Films, Hot Shots VIP, Yessma.
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