On 8th Jan 2021, ICC announced BYJU'S as global partner until 2023

Are you guys ok with BYJUs written all over, especially on the Indian Cricket team's T-Shirt? I am not.

BYJUs recently bought a startup called WhiteHatJr for $300M. This startup was really suspicious. Their false advertisements, sales pitch, curriculum. Everything seemed to have issues in it. In Sept 2020, When I looked deeper I found many issues. I decided to write about it on Quora and Reddit. Soon my accounts were suspended. So I moved to YouTube, Twitter, and LinkedIn and soon those accounts were also taken down. In total 17 videos, 2 YT channels, 2 Twitter handles permanently suspended, 3 articles from LinkedIn, the LinkedIn account itself was suspended twice, and these are just my accounts. 100s of other's accounts were taken down by BYJUs and WhiteHatJr ORM team.

WhiteHatJr and Byjus tried their best to take down all my content from the internet and when I kept on making new accounts, they filed a $2.75M defamation lawsuit over me. Please google search "Pradeep Poonia WhiteHat Jr" to know more about the case, you will find a lot of news articles, videos, and posts regarding the same.

The case is still in Delhi High Court, the next hearing is on 9th April. They have a lot of money and a bunch of lawyers to drag this case for years while I become penniless. For the first hearing, they got India's ex-Attorney General of India, Mukul Rohtagi to represent them.

BYJUs is notorious for taking down dissent from the Internet, manipulating Quora and google play reviews, inhumane work culture in their offices, pushing poor parents into loan traps, creating issues for parents in refunds, the list goes on and on. Earlier Sahara India used to sponsor BCCI, which turned out to be a big fraud. Then I think KingFisher was also for some time sponsoring some cricket teams in IPL. And now this BYJUs.

When we watch cricket we generate value. Our viewership is valuable. We help brands make money. Shouldn't we have a little say in who gets to sponsor ICC or BCCI? It would be much more fun to watch cricket if even the brands printed on cricketers T-shirts are some good ethical brands we trust and like, it would be more fun to support teams that way. Why is the that it's mostly a scam which gets to get printed on T-shirts? 

First Shah Rukh Khan used to advertise IIPM and now BYJUs. And the list for actors and cricketers advertising WhiteHat Jr is really big, its like the entire bollywood is advertising for them.

PS: I did a very polite comment under Anurag Dahiya's (Chief Commercial Officer of international cricket council) LinkedIn post saying we don't like seeing Byjus everywhere while watching cricket. And guess what, just like Byjus, he also deleted my comment.

Thank you.

Pradeep Poonia.