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IN Media Watch Briefs | 09/09/2002

Pesky Indiatimes

Pesky Indiatimes

There is only one way of keeping the Indiatimes online shopping-mailing list out of your life ----pray that you never become one of its recipients in the first place. One day you might find your Inbox full of entreaties to buy a "Sex on the beach bottle opener" or a 15s¿ pack of Kama Sutra condoms. No fear of what-if-the-kids-see-this is going to stop them from exhorting you to "catch the late night excitement" on the "KS Late Night Auctions". No unsubscribe options whatsoever. If you try you will get an automated response which says : "Sorry, but this mailing list does not accept submissions by email. Your message was not accepted for distribution."

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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.