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Re:Netflix Takes Down Episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Show in Saud... by nvo on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @06:36PM (#18803112)
They don't care if you watch it, they care if people in Saudi Arabia watch it.
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Re:Netflix Takes Down Episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Show in Saud... by throwaway98121 on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @07:49PM (#18803403)
I’m sure they care more than that. Global opinion matters, especially if it can influence policy makers, particularly citizens in the western developed countries.
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Re:Netflix Takes Down Episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Show in Saud... by bilbo0s on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @08:22PM (#18803534)
>Global opinion matters...

Not so sure about this?

Reality is, MBS can do whatever he wants, global opinion or no global opinion. That's been made pretty clear recently.

I mean really, who's gonna stop him?

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Re:Netflix Takes Down Episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Show in Saud... by mr_toad on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @09:50PM (#18803862)
Popular uprisings aren’t exactly uncommon in the Middle East.
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Re:Netflix Takes Down Episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Show in Saud... by mattigames on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @07:25PM (#18803311)
That's only partially true, in a world so communicated a lot of people are going to contact their friends living in Saudi Arabia and tell them what they think about the film, a lot will see this news on reddit or elsewhere and realize its being censored.
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Re:Netflix Takes Down Episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Show in Saud... by newen on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @08:14PM (#18803496)
I'm pretty sure a lot more than that one show is censored in Saudi Arabia..
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Re:Netflix Takes Down Episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Show in Saud... by abishekk6 on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @12:25AM (#18804361)
They only care that MBS shouldn't watch it or learns about it and get upset. Everything is low cost enough to make happen for that risk!
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