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Re:An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming S... by tempsy on Saturday December 26, 2020 @05:59PM (#25547134)
Seems like a bit of a leap to accuse these platforms of not bidding because they didn’t want to deal with the political fallout or hurt their business instead of other reasons without any concrete proof of why they decided against bidding for it.
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Re:An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming S... by pmiller2 on Saturday December 26, 2020 @06:09PM (#25547199)
What's the most likely reason, given Occam's Razor? Don't forget the article quotes Reed Hastings saying “We’re not trying to do ‘truth to power.’ We’re trying to entertain.” Granted, this is about Hassan Minaj's show, but you can't tell me the CEO of Netflix is going to cancel Patriot Act over such an issue, but then be fully open to showing this film.

Edit: changed to use the exact quote from Reed Hastings.

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