FB disables scribe's account

IN Media Watch Briefs | 19/08/2015

Is this the new 'face' of Facebook now? The social media network disabled yet another account, this time of a senior journalist and former India Today Managing Editor Dilip Mandal, reportedly over critical comments made against the government, Prime Minister Modi and the RSS. A couple of weeks ago Facebook disabled the accounts of feminist blogger Preetha G and writer Inji Pennu, after they raised a voice about misogynistic attacks, ostensibly because the former's name didn't seem 'proper'!

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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.

Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.