Kuwaiti court rejects lawsuit to block “Netflix”
Today, the High Court rejected the lawsuit to block the Netflix website in Kuwait, after demanding the blocking of the platform on the pretext of violating the customs and traditions of society, through the films shown.
It is expected that the plaintiff will file an appeal against the ruling, according to Al-Qabas newspaper.
A Kuwaiti lawyer had called for the US “Netflix” platform to be blocked in the country, against the background of showing the movie “Friends and My Dearest,” which, according to the lawyer, calls for “moral decay.”
The High Court received a lawsuit against the Ministries of Information and Communications, and the Communications and Information Technology Regulatory Authority, demanding the blocking of the "Netflix" platform in Kuwait.
The plaintiff, Lawyer Abdulaziz Al-Subaie, stated that “the American platform recently produced and screened an Arab movie, “Friends and Dearest,” which provoked a wave of public anger, due to his call, through many scenes, to moral decay,” explaining that “this work addresses the Arab family directly, trying to change The instinct that God created on her.”
The lawyer said, according to a number of local newspapers, that he filed this lawsuit with a "religious and moral motive, because of the messages and schemes contained in the platform that destroy the values of the Islamic community, and seek to create a new generation that does not deny vice."
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