LIFE NEWS/ Matt Philbin-
Score one for the good guys.The good guys are people who think you can discuss the ramifications of sexualizing young children without, ya know, sexualizing young children. It may not ruin Netflix’s year or quarter, or maybe month, but the streaming video service is definitely feeling the heat for airing the French pedo-bait film Cuties.
Despite sniffy lectures from sophisticated progressive writers and weasel-like defence from Netflix itself, Variety’s Todd Spangler is reporting that “A campaign waged against Netflix over Cuties and the film’s sexualized portrayal of children produced a surge in U.S. subscription cancellations over the weekend, according to research company YipitData.”
And it started with a Twitter hashtag.
“Netflix subscriber churn rates began to rise Sept. 10, the day after the release of “Cuties” on Netflix, when the hashtag “#CancelNetflix” was in the top-trending spot on Twitter,” Spangler writes.
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