Hasan Minhaj stars in "Patriot Act." “The only thing he’s modernizing,” Minhaj says in the episode, “is Saudi dictatorship.”Now, the Financial Times first reported, that episode is no longer available to view on Netflix in Saudi Arabia. “We strongly support artistic freedom worldwide and only removed this episode in Saudi Arabia after we had received a valid legal request,” Netflix said. Saudi Arabia, through a huge donation to SoftBank and other funds, has invested billions of dollars in Silicon Valley companies. This isn’t the first time this particular episode of “Patriot Act” has created news.

Source: Washington Post January 01, 2019 20:11 UTC