This year Netflix pulled down episode two of the US comic Hasan Minhaj’s stand up comedy special, Patriot Act in Saudi Arabia.

The reason? They received a complaint from the Kingdom’s Communications and Information Technology Commission that it violated Saudi’s anti-cyber crime law. The episode is now ‘banned’.

Even though the episode released on 28 October last year, it is only now that this ban has been imposed.

The episode is still streaming on YouTube and Minhaj also tweeted about how the ‘ban’ has only increased the episode’s viewership.