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Lateral with Tom Scott

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Netflix and the Sudanese King

The ruler of Sudan could watch Netflix without it being throttled. Was it to stop everyone from googling something at the same time? Is this like a politically thing, or is this something more like commercial or like technology based than it is like a political issue. I don't think Sudan was getting 5G in 2020. We barely got it here. Mobile data went down. Wi-Fi and things were still working. You've picked up on something there, Caroline. Yeah, it was only the mobile data that went out.

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