Netflix, With About 1 Million Russian Users, Pulls Plug Over Invasion
NewsweekDEC 2021
Netflix, TikTok and Big 4 Accounting Firms Latest to Suspend Services in Russia
Image credit: NurPhoto [via Daily Wire]
The Spin
Pro-establishment narrative
This will help strong-arm the country economically and structurally. The suspension of Netflix and TikTok specifically will affect the spread of information, and exemplify how sanctions can go further than just harming a country's finances.
Establishment-critical narrative
It's hypocritical to impose sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine, but not on the US for invading Iraq for equally unjustified reasons, or on Israel for invading and annexing Arab lands.
