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Russia Orders Netflix to Stream State Television Broadcasts

By JOHN HAYWARD

 

Russian media regulatory agency Roskomnadzor said Tuesday that beginning in March 2022, American streaming service Netflix will be required to include Russian state media broadcasts and obey various authoritarian media laws, including a ban on anything classified as “extremism.”

The Russian government considers virtually all criticism of itself to be “extreme.”

The Moscow Times saw glimpses of Netflix’s future in the way Google and Apple were forced to censor “extremist” content concerning dissident leader Alexei Navalny in advance of parliamentary elections in September. Russian officials threatened to arrest local employees of the two American companies if they did not comply.

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