New Delhi: Instagram landed itself in yet one more controversy, this time over a GIF/Sticker. The GIF was of Hindu deity Lord Shiva holding a glass of wine & a cell phone in his arms while winking was out there within the Stories.
A grievance was lodged in opposition to Instagram for allegedly hurting Hindu sentiments.
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Delhi resident Manish Singh registered the grievance. Singh stated that he discovered the sticker he was importing an Instagram Story he looked for the key phrase ‘Shiv’ which is when he noticed the objectionable sticker. He additional stated the sticker was not offered by a consumer however by the social media platform. He stated that the aim of constructing this sticker was to harm the emotions of Hindus. A case must be filed in opposition to the CEO and different officers of Instagram for this act. There have been complaints about a number of objectionable stickers on Instagram earlier than.
The Union authorities had on February 25 issued a brand new guideline for social media. They say that the social media platform can be chargeable for no matter content material customers put up on the platform. If a put up or tweet is made in opposition to India’s safety, integrity, the social media platform must disclose it to its originator, the one that posted it for the primary time.
Recently, Amazon got here below hearth after customers claimed {that a} bikini having colors of the state flag and emblem was out there on the market on the e-commerce large’s Canada web site. Karnataka Kannada and Culture Minister Aravind Limbavali referred to as it a matter of Kannadigas’ self-pride and demanded an apology from Amazon Canada. Amazon, following uproar, eliminated the bikini, which had the colors of unofficial state’s flag, in hues of yellow and purple, and has the state’s emblem ‘Gandaberunda’, a two-headed mythological chicken, from its Canada web site.
