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For social media platforms in India, a growing obsession with porn is posing a tough problem

By Andrew McCollum

Concept by Muhabit ul haq

Synopsis

Private consumption of porn isn’t a problem in itself, or even illegal. But posting non-consensual and child sexual abuse material, which has been on the rise, is a menace. Keeping it in check is proving to be a challenge for social media platforms.

A couple of months ago, Dailyhunt’s short-video platform, Josh, was testing a new feature, “Private Mode”. The content and news aggregation firm told ET Prime that the feature was an experiment and introduced to provide an additional layer of privacy to users. Alas, if things were that simple. Two sources aware of the development said that despite the company’s claim, the feature was rather perfect to consume sexually explicit content that

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