Netflix CEO defends censoring anti-government video in Saudi Arabia

Obama's Muslim masters reached across the Atlantic to pull strings again.

From Ars Technica:

"As 2019 began, Netflix suppressed an episode of comedian Hasan Minhaj's show Patriot Act for the Saudi Arabian market, sparking outcry from some Western critics. In a Wednesday interview, CEO Reed Hastings shrugged off those concerns.

"We're not in the news business," he said during an event sponsored by The New York Times. "We're not trying to do 'truth to power.' We're trying to entertain."

"We can accomplish a lot more by being entertainment and influence the conversation about the way people live, rather than being another news channel," he added."

'News channel.' What horse crap. This stooge was speaking about a comedian doing stand-up. So, what happened?

"Netflix removed the video at the request of the Saudi government, which said it violated a Saudi law prohibiting distribution of content that impinges on public order, religious values, or public morals.

The removal prevented some Saudis from watching the video, at least on Netflix's platform. But it remained available outside of Saudi Arabia. And Saudi censorship boosted Minhaj's profile in the United States.

"For the first time in my life, I was a bipartisan icon," Minhaj joked. "Liberals and conservatives: they both embraced me like I was money from Big Pharma."

Now, that's funny. What's not funny is Obama's Muslim masters reached across the Atlantic to pull strings again. This time at his new place of employment.

Back May, 2018, Barack and Michelle Obama inked a multi-year, sweetheart production deal with Netflix worth an estimated $50 million, in addition to a record-setting political slush-fund contribution book deal from Random House worth at least $60 million.

And, what a coincidence, Susan Rice, Obama’s former national security adviser and ambassador to the United Nations, joined the Netflix board of directors.

I'm reminded of the words from Andrew Fletcher (1655 - 1716), a Scottish writer and politician, who wisely opined, "Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."

In other words, politics is downstream from culture. Influence culture, and you can craft its politics.
I'm fairly confident that we'll never hear the Obamas declare, "I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money from Big Media for the opportunity to manipulate the masses with your message."

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