The Save Culture Save Bharat Foundation, headed by former Central Information Commissioner Uday Mahurkar, on Wednesday demanded the setting up of an umbrella body to regulate all audio-visual content, including over-the-top (OTT) platforms and films, to monitor sexually explicit and any other content that promoted “false narratives”, “love jihad” and inaccurately depicted India’s history.
The outfit launched an online Swachh Cyber Bharat campaign at the national capital’s Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library (PMML), urging people to send in their suggestions to the government for the draft Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill. The government released the draft Bill on November 10, inviting comments from the public until December 9, which it later extended to January 15. The Bill will replace the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995.
At a press conference held at the PMML, the outfit demanded that the government treat the production of “sexually perverted and incestuous” content on all OTT platforms as “anti-national activity”, which should attract harsh penal provisions, including imprisonment for 10 to 20 years with the burden of proof placed on the accused.
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