Gawker bought

IN Media Watch Briefs | 17/08/2016

Gawker Media, which went bankrupt after it lost a privacy suit filed by ex-pro wrester Hulk Hogan, has been bought over by media company Univision at a reported price of $135m, according to The Guardian. Earlier this year, a US court ordered Gawker to pay $140m in damages to Hogan for having published sex tapes featuring him and a friend’s wife. Last May PayPal founder and Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel dropped a bombshell when he announced that he had bankrolled Hogan’s suit against Gawker. Many regarded it as Thiel’s way of getting back at the gossip website which had outed him as gay in 2007.

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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.