People react to announcement of Pakistani Netflix

People have some hilarious reactions to the announcement of a Pakistani Netflix variant that will be launched by Ministry of Science and Technology according to Fawad Chaudhry.

Pakistani Netflix, PEMRA — People react to announcement of Pakistani Netflix.

According to the federal minister, the Science and Technology Ministry is all set to launch a Pakistani Netflix which will be the country’s first ever OTT TV service.

However, the content on the online platform will be regulated by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) which some people think might not be the best decision for the upcoming service.

These concerns are understandable considering PEMRA has very strict guidelines of what is considered immoral or indecent and the content available on the platform might not be what people actually want to see.

Here are some of the reactions, including one from Pakistani actor Osman Khalid Butt:

Can someone – literally anyone else prepare this content guideline.
Let's not forget PEMRA issued a show-cause notice to Udaari over 'immoral content' because it was highlighting child abuse. https://t.co/S6ZfuOJkUr
— Osman Khalid Butt 🇵🇸 (@aClockworkObi) October 23, 2020

And people make content for be ban by government lol i mean wth apina ap ko news ma rackhan ka laya kuch b we are country where a ad got ban because of dance our own drama like #Churails got ban. And u r saying we r making something like Netflix. Good ho ghaya g. https://t.co/obXhyXmLIa
— Haris Akhtar Raja (@HarisAkhtarRaj1) October 23, 2020

FORGET NETFLIX. It's not the streaming platform that's the issue it's literally everything else. Nothing works when you don't listen to the people who you are making this for. Forget the obsession with Netflix. PEMRA won't let anything with a woman in it unless she's being absued https://t.co/rY2ALn9IET
— Abdullah Shahid (@chadullah) October 23, 2020

Just a request; Keep it out of the reach of PEMRA https://t.co/TzRRdyVbT8
— Ahmed Pasha (@GeniusPasha) October 23, 2020

Halal version of Netflix coming soon#pemra https://t.co/hBXIwB5dft
— DoesItMatter (@rebilliousme) October 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/chawalnumber1/status/1319614128487616515

Ansar Abbasi will make the guidelines on content.. https://t.co/arQ8qmHXgS
— Waqas. (@VickzTiwana) October 23, 2020

There’s a group of people worried that the introduction of a Pakistani Netflix variant might mean a complete ban on the original streaming service in Pakistan as the regulator may force the public to switch to the local platform.

https://twitter.com/punjabified/status/1319614623746805761

matb agr apni launch kr rhy h to bahir wala asli netflix ban na krdy :) https://t.co/JBXWM8pQgU
— Uzair (@uxzxi) October 23, 2020

Some people even pointed out the need to bring already popular platform to Pakistan instead of wasting time and money on developing our own variants.

So instead of focusing on how to bring already popular platforms, we as always don’t want to fix the issues surrounding it rather reinvent the wheel which is going to be as useless as smart lockdown in Pakistan. First pakistani payment system now pakistani netflix. #PEMRA https://t.co/9IHpQEwp31
— Ismail Qasim (@ismailqasim99) October 23, 2020

It is pertinent to mention that earlier it was announced that Pakistan is developing its own payment gateway similar to PayPal which will be introduced very soon.

However, the government fails to grasp that our own payment gateway is simply useless and pointless for freelancers as international clients will not move to a Pakistani system for our convenience.

Right now all we can do is wait for the Pakistani Netflix variant to be launched and actually see what type of content is being allowed on the platform or was it even worth it.

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