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Govt Disabled 50 OTT Platforms In Two Years As It Strengthens Online Safety Measures
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22 July 2026
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regulatory
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Fusion42 · 22 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has disabled 50 OTT platforms over two years for obscene content and IT Act violations, enforcing stricter online safety rules including 3-hour content removal requirements and child data protection mandates.
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◆ The Wire takeaway
If you operate or invest in an OTT or streaming platform in India, you now have a three-hour legal deadline to remove content flagged by government agencies—and the government has already killed 50 platforms that didn't comply. Your content moderation team is now a regulatory dependency, not a cost centre.
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Enterprise Software · content-removal · child-safety · ott-platforms · india-regulation · digital-enforcement · compliance-deadline