Union Minister for Information and Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said in Rajya Sabha that it was important to make social media accountable to ensure that women were made safe everywhere, including cyberspace.
Giving a reply to BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi’s question on the Bulli Bai app in Rajya Sabha, the Union Minister said,
“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 question Sushil Modi had ask was with regards to the auctioning of women on social media via various websites including the Bulli Bai app.
IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw further elaborate that whenever the government spoke about bringing stronger laws for cyberspace and spoke about strengthening social media guidelines it face a backlash from the opposition parties who term it as an attempt to hamper freedom of expression and speech.
Auctioning of women from the Muslim community was an issue raise by Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi in a number of letters written to the IT minister following which action was taken by the police both in Mumbai and Delhi.
Bulli Bai app was put up on the GitHub software development platform which auction Muslim women by putting up their images.
