Gulf Arab states have demanded that Netflix remove all content deemed to violate ‘Islamic and societal values and principles’.
The recently released content including the content made for children contravened regulations. Saudi state TV showed blurred clips from the animated show Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, in which two teenage girls confess they love each other and kiss.
Footage from the controversial French film Cuties was also featured in the report, along with a caption accusing Netflix of being ‘cinematic cover for immoral messages that threaten the healthy upbringing of children’.
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Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates are members of the Gulf Cooperation Council. Netflix however has not commented on this.
Gulf nations have regularly fought with US film distributors over sexual minorities material, particularly in films. The Disney animated feature Lightyear, which depicts a lesbian kiss, was banned in the United Arab Emirates in June.
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Saudi Arabia, which only opened its cinemas in 2017, requested in April that Disney remove “LGBTQ connotations” from the Marvel superhero flick Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
