Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Friday wrote to IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw requesting him to take stringent motion in opposition to a YouTube channel “that ran a live auction of women of a particular community” and an app that had posted pics of a number of girls taken from their social media profiles with out consent.
“…I request you to take urgent and strict actions to deal with such nuisance so as to protect the dignity of women of our society as any responsible government should,” Chaturvedi wrote in a letter to Vaishnaw.
Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi writes to IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw requesting him to take strict actions in opposition to a YouTube channel “that ran a live auction of women of a particular community” & an app that had posted pics of a number of girls from their social media web sites. pic.twitter.com/ylw398mQ1p
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Flagging issues concerning the lack of protected our on-line world for ladies, she mentioned, “The misuse of social and digital media to harass and attack the dignity of a woman is disheartening. In a country where women are struggling with gender bias, these incidents yet again lay bare the protection and safety of women, especially in cyberspace.”
Describing the 2 instances, she mentioned, “A few months back, a YouTube channel ‘Liberal Doge’ ran a live “auction” of girls belonging to a specific group. People have been bidding and ranking girls primarily based on their bodily look and wrote degrading feedback. More just lately, photos of a number of girls have been uploaded with out their data or consent on the app known as ‘Sulli Deals’ that had posted photos of a number of girls from varied professions, together with journalists, sourced from their social media web sites.”
Chaturvedi identified that the ladies focused on the app confronted threats, embarrassment and harassment, and mentioned the aim of the app was to degrade and humiliate girls belonging to a specific group.
She additionally alleged that “no real progress has been made so far” regardless of the Delhi and Noida Police registering instances.
“The lack of stringent efficient preventive laws and punishments for such cases only motivates perpetrators,” she wrote, including: “It pains me to see that hardly any movement with regards to this case has been taken as of now despite the seriousness of it.”
According to complaints lodged with the police in Delhi and Noida, photos of a number of Muslim girls have been uploaded with out their consent on the app, which was created on GitHub, a preferred internet hosting platform with quite a few open-source codes. When a person chosen the “deal of the day” possibility on the house display screen, it displayed the image of a lady.
Earlier, Congress MP Md Jawaid too had requested Union Home Minister Amit Shah to make sure that these discovered responsible in reference to pictures of girls being uploaded on an ‘Sulli deals’ app have been dropped at guide. He additionally mentioned that 56 MPs throughout get together traces have signed his letter demanding punishment for these discovered responsible.
