New Delhi: Bollywood once again has fallen into the cross hairs of India’s Hindu nationalist ruling party — and major Western streaming services like Amazon and Netflix increasingly find themselves caught in the middle. Two separate criminal complaints were filed with the police over the weekend against the makers ofContinue Reading
San Francisco: Amazon, Twitter and other tech companies on January 11 confronted fresh blowback for banning President Donald Trump and taking action against a wide array of websites that had glorified the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol five days ago. Twitter’s decision to remove Trump’s account, citing the potentialContinue Reading
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Close on the heels of the Indian flag incident, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj has now received several complaints of Amazon selling flip-flops with Mahatma Gandhi’s image. Some Twitter users have tagged Swaraj in their tweets complaining that the beach sandals with Gandhi’s image were being sold on the AmazonContinue Reading
Amazon has been forced to remove a doormat depicting the Indian flag from its Canadian store after India’s top diplomat threatened to expel all foreign employees of the online retailer if it did not withdraw the product. External affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, used Twitter to demand Amazon “tender [an] unconditionalContinue Reading