{"id":1176439,"date":"2021-12-31T19:20:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T00:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1176439"},"modified":"2021-12-31T19:20:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T00:20:29","slug":"russia-orders-netflix-to-stream-state-television-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-orders-netflix-to-stream-state-television-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Orders Netflix to Stream State Television Broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-orders-netflix-to-stream-state-television-broadcasts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1176439&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>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 \u201cextremism.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Russian government considers virtually all criticism of itself to be \u201cextreme.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Moscow Times<\/span><\/i> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2021\/12\/29\/russia-to-require-netflix-to-stream-state-television-broadcasts-a75949\">saw<\/a> glimpses of Netflix\u2019s future in the way Google and Apple were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2021\/09\/17\/apple-google-delete-navalny-app-on-day-of-russian-parliamentary-vote-a75069\"><span>forced<\/span><\/a><span> to censor \u201cextremist\u201d 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_15762418\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1204104189.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15762418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1204104189.png\" alt=\"Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, his wife Yulia, opposition politician Lyubov Sobol and other demonstrators march in memory of murdered Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov in downtown Moscow on February 29, 2020. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV \/ AFP) (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, his wife Yulia, opposition politician Lyubov Sobol and other demonstrators march in memory of murdered Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov in downtown Moscow on February 29, 2020. (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Navalny survived an attempt by agents of the Russian government to assassinate him with chemical weapons last year and was thrown in jail upon returning to Moscow. Russian officials are currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russia-detains-two-allies-opposition-leader-navalny-2021-12-28\/\">cracking down<\/a> on his allies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10350145\/Russian-police-raid-homes-Alexi-Navalny-associates-Supreme-Court-orders-rights-group-close.html\">raiding<\/a> the homes of his associates, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2021\/12\/29\/an-annus-horribilis-for-russias-opposition-a75871\">driving<\/a> critics of Vladimir Putin into exile.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russia\u2019s state media watchdog will require Netflix to stream state television channels after it added the U.S.-based service to its register of \u201caudio-visual services\u201d Tuesday.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6Vg2U170AE\">https:\/\/t.co\/6Vg2U170AE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoscowTimes\/status\/1476270292821590028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Google and other American companies have also been hit with gigantic fines for refusing to meet censorship demands from the Russian state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now Netflix will be forced to <\/span><span>carry <\/span><span>content created by the state if it wants to keep doing business in Russia, since it has been added to Roskomnadzor\u2019s \u201cregister\u201d of online services under its authority:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>Roskomnadzor\u2019s register, which was created in late 2020, applies to online streaming services with over 100,000 daily users and requires them to comply with Russian law and register a Russian company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Registered services are also required to provide streams of 20 major Russian federal television channels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>From March 2022, Netflix will be obliged to offer broadcasts from flagship state-owned Channel One, entertainment-focused NTV and the Russian Orthodox Church\u2019s in-house channel Spas, which means \u201cSaved,\u201d to its users within Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The laws that Netflix must now obey include controversial provisions banning the promotion of \u201cextremism\u201d \u2014 a restriction which has been used against supporters of the anti-Kremlin opposition.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Netflix is capable of streaming live content using a feature called \u201cDirect,\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2020\/11\/06\/netflix-is-experimenting-with-a-live-tv-style-stream\/\"><span>tested<\/span><\/a><span> in France last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the state-run <\/span><span>Tass<\/span><span> news agency, Netflix was <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/economy\/1382009\">added<\/a> to the Roskomnadzor registry at the urging of an association of Russian video service operators, who demanded \u201cequal operating conditions\u201d for the American streaming giant now that it has over 100,000 users per day in Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 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