Regulating OTT content need of the hour: Experts

OTT platforms are a big threat to culture, says former information commissioner Uday Mahurkar

- HT Correspondent

LUCKNOW: Regulating OTT (over-the-top) platforms is needed to check cultural degradation and propagation of vulgar content that has led to increasing incidents of rape in the country, said experts at the Vichar Mahakumbh Shri Ram Parishad organised by Shri Guru Vashisht Trust here on Sunday.

Expressing his views at the session on 'OTT: Cultural Pollution', former information commissioner of India Uday Mahurkar said: "OTT was introduced in 2018 and everyone knows what content is being served by them."

Mahurkar is also president of the Save Culture Save Bharat Foundation, an NGO working against OTT platforms producing cheap and vulgar content.

OTT platforms are serving pornographic content that has led to increasing incidents of rape across the country. Strict regulations are required to check this cultural degradation, added Mahurkar. "OTT platforms are a big threat to culture. Rapes are increasing, families are breaking and divorces are increasing due to Bollywood and OTT content," he added. "The first punishment for rape due to pornographic content was given to Ted Bundy in America. He had raped and murdered 30 women. Now, such incidents are happening with girls in India due to OTT content," the former information commissioner said.

He listed production houses that were producing vulgar and pornographic contents.