"remove the three blind-prank videos" association wrote to Commissioner

To

The State Commissioner for the Welfare of Differently Abled

Commissionerate for the Welfare of Differently Abled

Chennai 5

Tamilnadu.

Respected Sir,

Sub:  praying an immediate legal actions to stop all blind-prank videos in youtube – regarding.

Ref.: Rights of persons with disability act 2016 section7.1, 89, 90 and 92.A.

     Now a days, the culture of creating and publishing videos in the name of ‘blind-prank’ on the platform of Youtube have increased. Most of them use the theme of blindness as a butt of joke. We point out and enclose the links of three Tamil Blind-prank videos, in which the personification of the visually impaired persons are so abusive and averse manner.

1. Prank Master

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tiR_emxi2g

 

2. Tamil Medium Pasanga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LvNNw3KorI

 

3. Kovai 360

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRda5QxCPZc

 

     Through their visual contents, above three video makers have had a fun of disability for their own sake, but it deeply demoralise and denigrate the dignity of visually impaired persons. Using disability as a mocking portrait must be stopped at any cost. Otherwise, it will create more indelible misconceptions about persons with disabilities in the midst of public arena.

      as the three videos exclusively violate the sections of Rights of persons with Disabilities Act 2016 which are pointed in the above reference, we file a petition to demand you to take necessary actions for removing these three video contents from the Youtube platform. We further request you to make necessary arrangements to include safety measures of disabled persons on the basis of RPD act 2016 in the community guidelines of Google India.

Thanking you,