Social Media Should Be Accountable for Women’s Safety: Ashwini Vaishnaw

Union Minister for Information and Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday said the in Rajya Sabha that it was essential to make social media accountable to make sure that ladies have been made protected in every single place, together with our on-line world.

While giving a reply to BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi’s query on the Bulli Bai app in Rajya Sabha, the Union Minister stated, “It was important to make social media accountable. It was important and a commitment of his government to ensure that women were made safe everywhere including on the cyberspace.”

The query Modi had requested was on the subject of the auctioning of girls on social media by way of numerous web sites together with the Bulli Bai app.

The Minister additional elaborated that each time the federal government spoke about bringing stronger legal guidelines for our on-line world and spoke about strengthening social media tips it confronted a backlash from the opposition events who termed it as an try to hamper freedom of expression and speech.

Auctioning of girls from the Muslim group was a difficulty raised by Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi in a lot of letters written to the IT minister following which motion was taken by the police each in Mumbai and Delhi.

Bulli Bai app was put up on the GitHub software program growth platform which auctioned Muslim ladies by placing up their pictures.