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A Need To Regulate Streaming Platforms?

Lina Tan, Founder and Chief Content Creator, Red Communications

05-Apr-24 18:00

A Need To Regulate Streaming Platforms?

Last month, home minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail shared that he was agreeable to the idea of regulating streaming platforms like Netflix, following a concern from a PAS MP of platforms that broadcasted Islamophobic content, and shows protraying LGBTQ relationships. There's been some pushback from creators and creatives in the industry, so we get into what it would mean for streaming platforms to be regulated, especially in the digital world, and how it would stifle creative expression.

Image Credit: Ivan Marc, Shutterstock

Produced by: Lee Chwi Lynn

Presented by: Lee Chwi Lynn, Sharaad Kuttan


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Categories:  government,  politics

Tags:  netflix,  streaming,  self regulation,  film industry,  movies, 


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