[drak0n1c]

YouTube also blocked two PewDiePie videos and their comments sections in India on behalf of the high court following a corporate defamation suit. Lately it's not unusual for Indian courts to censor specific media productions and platforms.

[sn41]

When did this happen? I can access the channel from India. Was it something that was temporary?

(I do want to support individual producers over corporate houses, but the whole PewDiePie vs. T-Series has a lot of racist and xenophobic overtones. This is what seems strange. Not all Indians like the T-Series brand, which has stood for cheap mass-market music and terrible quality cassettes once upon a time, but when the brand is vilified for being Indian in the comments sections, I feel revulsion towards the commenters.)

[nonamechicken]

Two of his videos are not available in India any more.

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/high-court-orde...

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Delhi-High-Court-banned-PewDie...

[zuron7]

The channel was not blocked. Just the two videos which were deemed to be defamatory. Pewdiepie can contest the decision.

[jjcm]

Which is ironic, as one of those two videos has a specific section about it legally not being defamation. The Indian courts granted an ex parte injunction against pewdiepie though because he didn’t show up in court in India.

[nonamechicken]

I think the ban is not because of defamation.

>It must be noted all the claims put forward by PewDiePie to T-Series were false. Pewdiepie in his Congratulations video talked about tax evasions, relation of T-Series with mafia, and a very big blame of sexual assault.

>Pewdiepie didn't stop here and said that Indians have poo poo in their brains. He made fun of Caste system and poverty in India.

>The High Court said that the songs have “repeated comments made which are abusive, vulgar and also racist in nature,”

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Delhi-High-Court-banned-PewDie...

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/high-court-orde...

The next hearing on this case is some time in July. I think the defamation part will be looked into then.

I am happy the court put a ban on his videos so quickly. Assuming he didn't have any intentions other than making money, he was purposefully creating more controversy so that he can make even more money as though $10-15 million he makes every year now is not good enough. By banning the videos, the court at least denied him the Indian view counts.