Over the past few days, there have been thousands of words written about the impact that content creators on social media have on our society. Let me stay on that topic, but change the focus—from a cringe joke by Ranveer Allahbadia aka Beer Biceps on a comedy game show to toxic, hate speech targeting minorities by India’s politicians and far-right figures, each of them content creators in their own right.
On 11 February, an official of India’s Information & Broadcasting Ministry tweeted that the episode of India’s Got Latent “with obscene and perverse comments by Ranveer Allahbadia has been blocked following Government of India orders”.