North Korea launches Netflix-like streaming propaganda service 'Manbang'

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Despite its name, Manbang is not a gay male pornography service. Kim Jong-un's regime unveiled the service today as a propaganda-filled streaming service delivering on-demand videos to televisions through a set-top box.

A North Korean news report says Manbang is further proof of the reclusive nation's “socialist cultural power,” and allows citizens to watch their country “make a leap forward every day, every hour.”

Netflix made a little joke on Twitter about all of this, and now describes itself as a "Manbang knockoff" in its bio.

English and Russian language learning material is also said to be included. The service doesn't appear to be available outside of North Korea.

The technology launch came just a few days before the North Korean leader “successfully tested a ballistic missile that he said could hit parts of the continental United States,” reports the New York Times.

https://boingboing.net/2016/08/26/north-korea-launches-netflix-l.html

 

[Will_H_69_9]

good luck with that North Korea government, we all know most of North Koea has no lights, let alone high speed internet. and also, who's bright idea was it to call this service manbang, it sounds like a name of a gay porn site.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

Straight outta onion and straight outta BS!! �� Kim Jong-un has some explaining to do with the name Manbang a Netflix, Hulu ripoff��.