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

[Piga Dgrifm]

What does this phrase even possibly mean?

Having a shitty Reddit beard that twists and twirls its way around you whole head and neck.

 

[Troonologist PhD]

Makes sense said like that. I was focused on the fact that sometimes when we censor stuff things can go haywire and everything offensive gets targeted cause they saw outrage worked with that other thing. But in this case it's a illegal pedo movie not your average torture porn horror flick my comparison was probably wrong.

Torture porn getting banned would arguably be a benefit.

Edit: Meant to write torture porn.

 

[Count groudon]

Good job Texas, you truly are the best of the 50. Im totally gonna bother to remember the Alamo now.

 

[XYZpdq]

Torture porn getting banned would arguably be a benefit.

Edit: Meant to write torture porn.

but Guinea Pig gets funny by the third one

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

I just don't get why Netflix is so hell bent on dying on this hill, doubling down on standing up for Cuties of all things.

 

[FierceBrosnan]

I just don't get why Netflix is so hell bent on dying on this hill, doubling down on standing up for Cuties of all things.

Wokeness kills the ability to think critically.

 

[Uzumaki]

I just don't get why Netflix is so hell bent on dying on this hill, doubling down on standing up for Cuties of all things.

They have to now; they've got the Tiger by his tail. If they concede it was softcore child porn now then they're admitting they put softcore child porn on their service and then told the people concerned about this that they were acting in bad faith. They're in too deep.

 

[FierceBrosnan]

They have to now; they've got the Tiger by his tail. If they concede it was softcore child porn now then they're admitting they put softcore child porn on their service and then told the people concerned about this that they were acting in bad faith. They're in too deep.

I'm amazed they haven't taken the usual 3rd option of it being some random management fucko that works there being at fault and then crucifying them publicly. Altbough at this point no one would believe it.

 

[Uzumaki]

I'm amazed they haven't taken the usual 3rd option of it being some random management fucko that works there being at fault and then crucifying them publicly. Altbough at this point no one would believe it.

They genuinely can't even pull this one anymore. They could have done it prior to their breathless defense of the movie citing how anyone who dislikes child porn is a right wing reactionary but that ship has sailed, gotten lost in a storm, become shipwrecked on an island, and created a small society there.

 

[Shaka Brah]

They genuinely can't even pull this one anymore. They could have done it prior to their breathless defense of the movie citing how anyone who dislikes child porn is a right wing reactionary but that ship has sailed, gotten lost in a storm, become shipwrecked on an island, and created a small society there.

Can you even imagine what had to go through their heads to think that was a good idea? If anything I should be thanking Netflix for making right-wing reactionaries look good to the public.

 

[Frofo Baggis]

A lot of people on the left defended the film just cause a Negress directed it. Not exactly surprising though.

 

[Uzumaki]

Can you even imagine what had to go through their heads to think that was a good idea?

It doesn't take a lot of imagination to see this was a blatant attempt by a bunch of pedophiles and their useful idiot allies to bring sex with kids one step closer to the mainstream.

Oh you think I'm a conspiracy theorist? Then I challenge you to come up with an alternative motive. Granted to the twitter morons this is just one more trench in the culture war but Netflix bought this trash before anyone objected to it.

Seriously I'd feel better about the world if someone has a better explanation but I can't get past the premise that someone high up at Netflix is a card carrying NAMBLA member. Or I guess NAMGLA. And there is nothing you can say that will convince me the producer isn't a pedophile. Full stop there is no need to audition hundreds of little girls twerking. This role was not fucking Sister Aloysius it did not justify The Great Little Girl's Butt Search.

Edit: Also make sure your alternate motive can account for the marketing material.

 

[alreadyhome]

I'm amazed they haven't taken the usual 3rd option of it being some random management fucko that works there being at fault and then crucifying them publicly. Altbough at this point no one would believe it.

Times are changing - they see that as something they don't "need" to do anymore. Now, they can barely contain their pride for their pedophilic content. It must be hard for them, but soon they won't "need" to contain that either...very soon!

 

[cryptidfuck]

I just checked and HOW IS CUTIES STILL ON NETFLIX
ITS STILL ON THE AMERICAN SITE

 

[WarJams]

Good job Texas, you truly are the best of the 50. Im totally gonna bother to remember the Alamo now.

 

[Tony-Stewart]

I just don't get why Netflix is so hell bent on dying on this hill, doubling down on standing up for Cuties of all things.

Because they know they can get away with it and benefit from all the free promo people have been giving them all over the internet. People have been canceling their Netflix but the internet has a short memory and because of Covid and people having to stay at home Netflix knows it's only a matter of time before boredom brings all those same people back.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

Because they know they can get away with it and benefit from all the free promo people have been giving them all over the internet. People have been canceling their Netflix but the internet has a short memory and because of Covid and people having to stay at home Netflix knows it's only a matter of time before boredom brings all those same people back.

True, but remember Netflix also has more competition now in regards to streaming services than it used to. When "they" get bored, they might run to Hulu or Fubo instead. There are also several streaming services that are free with ads, and those are being tolerated more despite the ads. I've watched several movies on PlutoTV recently.

 

[The Littlest Shitlord]

Didn't some guy do hard time for having a bunch of pics of Jessi Slaughter in her underwear? Could this be used as case precedence against Netflix execs?

Don't know about that but some guy went to prison once for having a collection of pictures of kids in underwear cut out from Sears and K-Mart catalogs. It's not just what you have, but what it is used for.

Surprise, surprise, Netflix's CEO is still defending the movie.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainme...0-10-13/cuties-netflix-movie-ceo-ted-sarandos [A]

Spoiler: Full Article

Netflix CEO defends ‘Cuties,’ calls the film uniquely ‘misunderstood’ in the U.S​

By CHRISTI CARRAS | STAFF WRITER
OCT. 13, 2020 | 11:51 AM

Netflix Chief Executive Ted Sarandos is not entertaining any backlash to the controversial French film “Cuties,” which many detractors have accused of sexualizing young girls.

Appearing at Monday’s virtual Mipcom marketing event, Sarandos reportedly defended Maïmouna Doucouré's award-winning debut feature about an 11-year-old Senegalese immigrant in France who rebels against her conservative family values and joins a “free-spirited dance crew.”

“It’s a little surprising in 2020 America that we’re having a discussion about censoring storytelling,” Sarandos said, according to Deadline. “It’s a film that is very misunderstood with some audiences, uniquely within the United States.

“The film speaks for itself. It’s a very personal coming-of-age film. It’s the director’s story, and the film has obviously played very well at Sundance without any of this controversy and played in theaters throughout Europe without any of this controversy.”

In August, Netflix’s poster for the French drama ignited harsh criticism and an online petition to remove the title from the platform. The streaming giant promptly apologized for and changed the “inappropriate artwork” — which pictured its four preteen stars posing in costumes baring their legs and midriffs — but stood by the film.

Despite Netflix’s damage-control efforts, many continued to make assumptions about the movie and criticize its director, who received a personal apology from Sarandos while fielding “numerous death threats.” After “Cuties” premiered on Netflix internationally last month, a grand jury in Texas went so far as to indict the streaming service for “promotion of lewd visual material depicting a child.”

“I received numerous attacks on my character from people who had not seen the film, who thought I was actually making a film that was apologetic about hypersexualization of children,” Doucouré told Deadline in September, adding she hoped the haters would “understand that we’re actually on the same side of this battle” after watching the movie.

“I really put my heart into this film,” she said. “It’s actually my personal story as well as the story of many children who have to navigate between a liberal Western culture and a conservative culture at home.”

In a September column for the Los Angeles Times, culture critic Mary McNamara characterized “Cuties” as “an imperfect but insightful portrait of a girl beset by so many opposing forces” and noted it defied her expectations.

“What I found was a film about rage,” she wrote. “That sudden, inchoate, unidentifiable female fury that rises in so many girls, often self-destructively, when they realize that certain rules are not about protecting them but controlling them.

“‘Cuties’ is not about a girl coming to terms with her sexuality; sexuality doesn’t factor into any of her actions. It’s about a girl coming to terms with the nature of power and her immediate, and potentially lifelong, lack of it.”

Isn't part of the job of marketing to make sure a film isn't misunderstood? "We marketed this film to pedophiles. Now people think our film is made to sexually gratify pedophiles. How did this happen?"

 

[Dire Dire Cocks]

As of September 8th, 2024, 4 whole years after the trailer and movie were released and gained massive controversy, Netflix has decided to remove Cuties from the platform.
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[2 Faces 2 Colours]

As of September 8th, 2024, 4 whole years after the trailer and movie were released and gained massive controversy, Netflix has decided to remove Cuties from the platform.
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JuJu the Cow in shambles.