3 minutes of readingCochinFebruary 10, 2026 02:24 pm IST
Although days have passed since then Alleged suicide of three minor sisters in Ghaziabad.The mystery continues to surround the case, and with each passing day, New, more twisted details are emerging.casting a shadow of suspicion over the unfortunate incident. However, social media appears to remain obsessed with early reports that minors (aged 12, 14 and 16) allegedly took extreme measures due to “excessive online gaming” and a alleged obsession with “Korean culture.” As a result, a sector of Internet users has become demanding. restrictions or total prohibition of minors’ access to social networks. Now, veteran filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has come forward to denounce such demands, saying the move could have serious consequences for children.
In a long post on Pointing out that viewing social media as simply a frivolous distraction is “nonsense,” he stated that it has become a “main conduit for knowledge, skills, and real-time networks that determine who gets ahead.” If India imposes a ban on minors’ access to social media, Varma argued, it would give their counterparts in other countries an advantage as they would still have direct access to platforms that teach coding, languages, entrepreneurship, science and more.
Mentioning that such a ban would deny Indian children access to diverse perspectives, breaking news and opportunities, Ram Gopal Varma noted that this will ultimately create a “strongly competitive inequality.” He noted: “The ‘protection’ logic of the ban sounds noble, but it ignores how the modern world really works. The speed of information is now a decisive factor in both personal and national success. Banning access will not eliminate the risks… it simply outsources the information advantage to children elsewhere, widening the very inequalities that governments claim to care about. Children will continue to encounter the world over time, but those who are denied early, guided exposure risk entering it less prepared, less adaptable and less informed than those who do not have restrictions.
Read Ram Gopal Varma’s full post here:
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The core issue of banning social media to protect children under 16 from so-called offensive content will also harm them in today’s hyper-competitive global information economy.
It’s silly to think that social media is just a frivolous distraction because…—Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) February 9, 2026
Maintaining that such bans will not safeguard childhood in any meaningful way, the filmmaker claimed that it would only result in a generation of “digital newcomers.” He added: “The excuse of ‘offensive content’, while real in isolated cases, pales in comparison to the systemic cost of information deprivation in a competitive world.”