Political battle on India’s social regional platforms , Mar 2019
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Regulate, don’t ban TikTok, Times of India, March 2019
Recently, the Madras High Court voiced concerns over the “pornographic and inappropriate content” being circulated through the app TikTok and directed the Centre to ban it. The court also asked the government if it would enact a statute like the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act in the US. Now, the Chinese company behind the app,…
DetailsArrested for playing PubG? The Times of India, March 2019
You might think India is living it up in the digital age, and then comes news of a ban on and the consequent arrests of people playing ‘PlayerUnknown’s BattleGrounds’, an online video game. The game, widely known as PUBG, is a first-person shooter game that begins with 100 players being airdropped into a large play…
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A boy’s suicide this week in southern India after his mother scolded him for playing a popular online game has inflamed a national debate over whether the game should be banned. The 16-year-old’s father demanded a ban on PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, known by the acronym PUBG, after his son hanged himself from a ceiling fan at…
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