Netflix, Inc. indicted by grand jury in Tyler Co., Tx for promoting material in Cuties film

[Smug Cat]

Their best bet would to make the argument for discrete shots and sequences rather than for the movie as a thing itself. I don't know if they can do that.

Another uninformed gut opinion, but it would be ludicrous to me if they could. Literally any work with artistic merit could be cut in such a way that it only contains the objectionable material and no artistic statement. If they could do that then the entire artistic merit bit of the law would be useless.

 

[Eris!]

Literally any work with artistic merit could be cut in such a way that it only contains the objectionable material and no artistic statement.

This is done pretty often with obscenity. The MPAA does it all the time. The objectional material is removed but the work as a whole is permitted to exist.
I know the MPAA isn't govt and this is a criminal case, but still.

 

[mr.moon1488]

It's not much of a shock who Cuties' biggest fan is...

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Has Trump even commented on the whole Cutties thing?

 

[Ciscoipphone]

the #cuties was a nice touch. way to trending

 

[Smug Cat]

This is done pretty often with obscenity. The MPAA does it all the time. The objectional material is removed but the work as a whole is permitted to exist.
I know the MPAA isn't govt and this is a criminal case, but still.

Do you mean like in terms of film rating? That seems like a very different issue from a criminal case. If the goal was to get Netflix to remove all the prepubescent butt shots or whatever it would track as relevant, but this seems more like a "should these people go to jail" sort of a question.

 

[Eris!]

If the goal was to get Netflix to remove all the prepubescent butt shots or whatever it would track as relevant, but this seems more like a "should these people go to jail" sort of a question.

The former is a significantly more likely result than the latter. I doubt anyone will face personal liability. The most likely results, if the case succeeds, are the movie being banned or certain scenes being censored.

 

[AnOminous]

i just thought it worked somewhat like this because a couple years ago they charged a bunch of high ranking dudes from volkswagen after it came out that some of their cars had manipulated emission systems

Dude, the whole point of forming a corporation is you, the dudes forming the corporation, are not personally responsible for anything the corporation does, nor do you have any personal liability for doing it. So the shitty corporation you formed can literally go murder a bunch of people for fun and you personally are not liable for anything resulting from that.

I started this thinking it was a defense of this whole corporation idea, but really, is this a good idea? Why have we formed our whole society on this absolutely insane idea?

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Has Trump even commented on the whole Cutties thing?

Not that I know of, although the QAnon tards probably think he is working on it or something

 

[Eris!]

Dude, the whole point of forming a corporation is you, the dudes forming the corporation, are not personally responsible for anything the corporation does, nor do you have any personal liability for doing it. So the shitty corporation you formed can literally go murder a bunch of people for fun and you personally are not liable for anything resulting from that.

I started this thinking it was a defense of this whole corporation idea, but really, is this a good idea? Why have we formed our whole society on this absolutely insane idea?

Abolishing the concept of corporations and limited liability would solve so many problems. The only kind of ownership recognized should be sole or joint proprietorship. The actions of a company should be the actions of its owner.

 

[Smug Cat]

You'd rather be gangraped at age 12 and suffer debilitating back injuries like Hannelore Kohl than be interned? Alright dude.

Yeah I gotta say I'd personally rather be vaporized by a nuke than subjected to the kind of wartime rape common during WWII. Reading the more graphic accounts of the sorts of things done to women in that conflict will make the blood drain right out of your face.

 

[Ulamog did nothing wrong]

Finally someone is trying to do something about that filth they call a movie. I have doubts thought since the maker of the movie is all things a liberal could wish for, Black, jew and prob 110 pronouns. I will remain hopeful that the system will hold them accountable, but I also hope they go one step further and that they prosecute all the "reviewers" that gave it a high mark or that admitted watching it and liking it too.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

Ultimately these people have names and addresses.

 

[ZippyZoopa]

On one hand I completely agree it’s softcore child porn.
On the other, obscenity cases are complete bullshit. Either charge them with an actual crime or don’t, but obscenity cases are bullshit stuff like this comic made fun of Jesus or this porno involved poop. In this case it’s warranted but it should be federal investigation not some podunk Texas shithole using obscenity.
Edit: I misread and let my anger about obscenity laws get the better of me. Lmao it looks like they are pursuing child porn charges.

Shut up Libertarian

 

[ZippyZoopa]

You know what really gets me about Cuties? By far the demographic most aggressively shilling for Cuties and defending it against the "Nazis" are unkempt bearded bugmen with nsfw Twitter accounts, aka obvious sex pests and possible pedophiles and no one on the progressive side of the political spectrum sees anything suspect or suspicious about this.

I bet they'd care if Americans with right of center political beliefs loved a movie that painted Jews in a less than flattering light.

You are right, but a nonce with a Monogatari pfp of an underage girl who is sexualized is quite ironically sad.

 

[DeadFish]

Yeah I gotta say I'd personally rather be vaporized by a nuke than subjected to the kind of wartime rape common during WWII. Reading the more graphic accounts of the sorts of things done to women in that conflict will make the blood drain right out of your face.

My favorite is when one group does a raid, capture the pregnant women, slice open the wombs, tear out the feteses then impale the unborn on sticks.

What a wonderful world

 

[Smithfield Ham]

I'd like to see an investigation into what the "auditions" were like and what was filmed. There's an old saying: "For every rat you see, there's ten you don't."

 

[AnOminous]

Abolishing the concept of corporations and limited liability would solve so many problems. The only kind of ownership recognized should be sole or joint proprietorship. The actions of a company should be the actions of its owner.

But our whole society is based on corporations having all the rights of people while the people who act on their behalf have absolutely no responsibility for these actions!

*looks around at society*

Oh. Yeah.

 

[Snusmumriken]

“Well you see Mr. Prosecutor, I was only trying to teach these young actresses that the media shouldn’t be sexualizing and preying upon them.”

“And how did you express that?”

“With my penis.”

 

[Rafal Gan Ganowicz]

There are a lot of things in the US constitution that get outsized focus becuase the founding fathers were specifically pissed off about something. The third amendment is a good example. Most kids when they learn the bill of rights in elementary school are like "Speech.. Okay got it. Arms... okay got it. Quartering of troops? Wtf?"
It's there because in the various wars against indians in the west, the British would constantly quarter troops in people's villages, and the troops would take whatever they want. This is an extremely foreign experience to modern first world people, but dealing with foraging soldiers used to be a common fact of life. The british took it a step beyond normal, basically foraging off their own people. The founding fathers were like "Fuck you, no one can do this, it fuckin sucks. They ate all my goddamn saltpork for crying out loud."

The Yanks did the same in Canada during War of 1812. A couple examples are The Battle of Sandwich and the shortlived taking of a tavern and several farms at Colchester, Ontario, as well as various fuckery around Niagara.

 

[Syaoran Li]

The Yanks did the same in Canada during War of 1812. A couple examples are The Battle of Sandwich and the shortlived taking of a tavern and several farms at Colchester, Ontario, as well as various fuckery around Niagara.

The weird part is that so many leftists like to say the Constitution is outdated, a relic from colonial times, or otherwise illegitimate and they usually engage in vilification of the Founding Fathers.

Most of the time they point to the Second Amendment (and more recently, the First Amendment) as their proof, but really the only relic from the Revolutionary War era in the Constitution that has no relevance today would be the Third Amendment.