We accessed, through RTI requests, the complaints sent from all across India to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Amazon Prime Show, "Tandav". This was potentially a trigger for the regulation of OTT platforms under the undemocratic and unconstitutional IT Rules, 2021. We consider these complaints today against these new rules to show how it provides a heckler's veto and will lead to censorship of speech which is otherwise legal.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://internetfreedom.in/tandav-case-study/