By Matt Smith DUBAI, April 22 (Reuters) -
Saudi Arabia plans to
regulate local companies that screen
shows on YouTube, a senior official was quoted as saying in local media on Tuesday - a move that could stifle its nascent creative industries. The kingdom is the world's top per capita user of YouTube. But YouTube's popularity has **w brought
Saudi Arabia's
homegrown production houses under the gaze of the General Authority for Audiovisual Media, a recently formed watchdog. Riyadh Najm, the Authority's president, told the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat that his organization would soon issue a manifesto to organize - or
regulate - the work of
YouTube channels.
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