This was not the first time the MTRCB made a move to pull out scenes that featured China's nine-dash line.
Some lawyers, on the other hand, raised concerns over the implications of the government’s move to “censor” digital content.
“The Netflix action on ‘Pine Gap,’ while morally satisfying, is IMO dangerous.
Aside from the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia also pulled out the screening of the movie in their respective theaters.The nine-dash line, which comprises nine dash marks, marked an expansive area of the South China Sea that China claims it has historical jurisdiction over.in The Hague, Netherlands invalidated this claim as baseless.
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