I READ with quiet, roiling disappointment that Finas (National Film Development Corporation) has suggested censoring Netflix. The statement has now been clarified to suggest regulating Netflix, which is no saving grace because the term “regulating” is merely a more ambiguous connotation – of which the root sense of the word is ultimately “censoring”.

In talking about censorship, let’s look for a moment at the Communi-cations and Multimedia Act, which in Section 3(3) clearly states that “(3) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as permitting the censorship of the Internet.” This shows that TV and cinema censorship vastly differs from Netflix censorship, because we access Netflix via the Internet.