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The selective morality of online outrage
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India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Second, the immunity granted to the IT cell to doxx and threaten young women, demonstrating the gendered and protected nature of violence unleashed by auxiliaries of the state.
How easily we have forgotten that long before this outrage, dozens of Muslim women were targeted by a relentless, systemic campaign of digital dehumanisation through apps called Sulli Deals and Bulli Bai.
The platform’s founders offered visitors a chance to claim one a sulli, a derogatory term used by right-wing Hindu trolls for Muslim women, and labelled them as “deals of the day”.
Following this, another app called Bulli Bai was created to auction Muslim women, which allowed users to bid for them on the internet.
The perpetrators of the Sulli Deal and Bulli Bai crimes are still at large, as is the handle that doxxed Singh.