VIDEO : NY Times Media Critic Blasts ?Netflix?s Supine Compliance? in Pulling ?Patriot Act? Episode

According to SFGate.com, "New York Times media critic Jim Rutenberg told readers in his latest Mediator column he doesn?t agree with Netflix?s decision to pull an episode of their program ?Patriot Act? from Saudi Arabian airwaves following objection from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman." Rutenberg wrote, "Maybe the Saudi complaint wasn?t all that shocking. Like any authoritarian monarch worth his bone saw, Prince Mohammed doesn?t brook criticism. The shock came with Netflix?s supine compliance. After pulling the episode from its Saudi feed, the streaming service told the Financial Times it was simply responding to ?a valid legal request."