India, Feb. 16 -- As the row around podcaster and YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia's remarks on comedian Samay Raina's show 'India's Got Latent' escalates, with people calling him out for his crass remarks, another internet personality, Tehseen Poonawala, who also refers to himself as a 'political analyst', has come in defence of the YouTube show, calling the outrage an attack on freedom of speech.

Appearing on Mirror Now as a guest, Tehseen Poonawala said that while the Parliament is united on a "social media" issue, "a convicted rapist is out every time there's an election in this country. No one in the Parliament chooses to react on it."

"Cracking a bad joke is just that, a bad joke, and the punishment to it is self-censorship, self-regul...