Bulli Bai App Issue

About the issue:

• Bulli Bai is an app hosted on the Github platform.
• It has put up an online ‘sale’ of some 100 Muslim women. It has misused their photos from social media for this outrageous ‘auction’. Many of these photographs have been doctored.
• The targeted women include activists, journalists and lawyers who are vocal on several political and social issues.

Why is this worrying?

• This isn’t the first time such targeted harassment of Muslim women is being witnessed in India’s online arena. A similar app called ‘Sulli Deals’ staged an ‘auction of Muslim women’ in June last year.
• The Sulli Deal app too targeted women with an assertive presence on social media and dehumanized them into ‘deals of the day’.
• The police investigation into the app’s creators yielde