When Netflix is not busy canceling shows, it studiously removes existing content from its platform to make space for new ones. But while the latter is majorly a non-threatening procedure, the British government just made the streamer weaponize its idle process by asking it to follow an “onerous” regulation.
The not-so-subtly expressed threat is a result of U.K. ministers wanting streamers to follow their “Media Bill” that would allow media regulator Ofcom to monitor and regulate such platforms like it does traditional broadcasters. This bill, if it becomes a law, would condemn Netflix and other streamers like it to fall victim to staggering fines of up to $310,000 in case its content is deemed harmful based on complaints from viewers.
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