VERDICTUM.IN NEUTRAL CITATION NO. 2023/DHC/001676 between acceptable standards of decency and vulgar language, in order to prevent any legal transgressions. 48. In the present case, TVF Media Labs Pvt. Ltd is involved in creation of episodes of the web series ‘College Romance’. The said series is streamed on various platforms such as SonyLiv, YouTube, including TVF Play (an OTT Platform) which is owned by petitioner no. 1 in CRL. M.C. 2214/2020. It is, therefore, clear that ‘online content curator’ and intermediaries are also in clear violation of the above-mentioned guidelines as neither there was any classification nor any warning regarding the profanity of language or excessive use of expletives. The web series was available to every age group. Therefore, this web series also stood covered under violation of the Rules of 2021. 49. It is, therefore, clear that the intermediary i.e. petitioner no. 1 in CRL. M.C. 2214/2020 is in clear violation of these guidelines as neither there was any classification nor any warning regarding the profanity of language, excessive use of expletives as it was free for all channel. 50. A perusal of the above guidelines will also show that if the content of the present web series is examined in the light of contemporary moral and civil standards of the country, this Court reaches conclusion that the majority of people of this country do not use such language and are offended and disgusted with excessiveness of profanity, vulgarity and obscenity of the language used which is being served to everyone who cares to watch content on YouTube or other platforms without any certification and hindrances. CRL.M.C. 2214/2020 & connected matters Page 26 of 41

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