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Re:An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming S... by aminozuur on Saturday December 26, 2020 @05:48PM (#25547054)
Although I oppose cancel culture, I wish more people pressured Netflix into airing such documentaries.

However, Netflix did produce an excellent docu on Jeffrey Epstein, so perhaps they chose to forego this docu for other reasons than it being controversial in some areas.

Re:An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming S... by ehsankia on Saturday December 26, 2020 @06:18PM (#25547259)
Attacking Epstein is not really controversial anymore, especially since he's dead and no one is really standing by him anymore. Alienating Saudi Arabia absolutely is, as shown by the controversy around the Patriot Act episode.
Re:An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming S... by xref on Saturday December 26, 2020 @05:56PM (#25547113)
What’s being cancelled? If Netflix doesn’t pay to distribute a specific movie it’s “cancelled”? It’s still being released, nobody bought-and-buried it like National Enquirer or something. Also I streamed Kingdom of Silence about Khashoggi off Amazon several months ago
Re:An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming S... by aminozuur on Saturday December 26, 2020 @06:31PM (#25547332)
I might have not explained myself well. I meant to say that, I do not wish for Netflix to be "cancelled", or viciously attacked, as is common nowadays. But I do hope to see that users hold Netflix accountable on basic principles.
Re:An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming S... by arminiusreturns on Saturday December 26, 2020 @06:12PM (#25547216)
The Epstein documentary is a prime example of how Netflix and others will pretend to address a topic but instead are subtley whitewashing it. It was not a thorough documentary, for reasons that are obvious to those who know how hollywood and it's periphreals work... but almost no one will address for the same reasons. No one wants their piece of the pie taken away.

If you are wondering what I'm talking about, read up on the PROMIS scandal and who Ghislaines father was.