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What happened when Netflix tried to appease Saudi Arabia
Netflix was recently in the news for removing an episode of Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj. The episode was critical to the Saudi regime. Netflix pulled it only in Saudi Arabia. But Saudis could still watch it on YouTube.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readNetflix was recently in the news for removing an episode of Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj. The episode was critical to the Saudi regime. Netflix pulled it only in Saudi Arabia. But Saudis could still watch it on YouTube. Consequently, the episode got more attention than when it was first released in October.
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
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Line Editor, Press Play
Amy Ta
Digital News & Culture Editor
Robin Wright
contributing writer at The New Yorker magazine, and a joint fellow at U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson Center
Robert Thompson
Professor of Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University