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

[Clockwork_PurBle]

Everyone I disagree with is a Nazi = Everything I don't like was created by the Juice.

Also, Bob Ross did not invent the technique of painting wet-on-wet oil, but he's the one that brought it to the public eye and popularized it. Is he any less impactful because he did not invent that technique?

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Everyone I disagree with is a Nazi = Everything I don't like was created by the Juice.

Also, Bob Ross did not invent the technique of painting wet-on-wet oil, but he's the one that brought it to the public eye and popularized it. Is he any less impactful because he did not invent that technique?

If I disagree with a Jew, does that Jew become a Nazi, thus bringing balance to the world?

 

[NulWillBecomeTranny]

Everyone I disagree with is a Nazi = Everything I don't like was created by the Juice.

Also, Bob Ross did not invent the technique of painting wet-on-wet oil, but he's the one that brought it to the public eye and popularized it. Is he any less impactful because he did not invent that technique?

I can show you that everything I don't like was created by the jews. There's even a country just for jews. Let me know if you find a country just for nazis.

 

[Forgetful Gynn]

So then you can provide facts and authentic proof that the producer Sylvain De Zangroniz – who grew up in Spain & Morocco and makes films about the Muslim community and whose earliest work was directing a movie literally called Islam School Welkoum – is actually an Israeli Jew? Or that the director, Maïmouna Doucouré, who is black and grew up in a polygamist Senegalese Muslim family and makes films about Muslim girls, is actually a Jew?

Why are you responding to me as if I made those specific claims? The complaint was about "jew sperging", which is just another way of saying " stop being anti-semitic" but in a way that would resonate in a place where accusations of racism wouldn't.

Everything I don't like was created by the Juice.

Is there really anyone who believes that?

 

[F/lying Frankenstein]

Ladies and Gentle Kiwis..I have no news on this litigation. What I do have however might be of interest to you: A French journalist's opinion of the legal matter regarding Cuties, written in French, and translated by myself. Published in Marianne, which is not exactly your run-of-the-mill left-wing newspaper, but is unfortunately affected by the plight known as Atlanticism, which means that they are..somewhat obstinate to follow America's left-wing on some points.

Original article in French

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« Moral Order » [ Marianne likes to punctuate their articles with a nifty expression, that summarize their opinion of a matter, before getting their headlines and the article itself. ]

“Mignonnes” and Netflix : The Internationale of Puritanism is Unleashed

By Olivier De Bruyn

Published on the 9th of October, 2020.

The subject of many violent controversies in the USA, the streaming on Netflix of the movie « Cuties », by filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré continues to unleash passionate responses. The latest event to date: The announcement by the State of Texas of a legal procedure against the platform, which isn’t that provocative. A saddening state of affairs.

The controversy is certainly not at all « Mignonne » and it now takes place in the courtrooms...A quick summary : Last August, on the silver screens of Continental France, came out « Mignonnes », a movie made by Maïmouna Doucouré, which follows the adventures of a 11 years old preteen, Amy, who joins a young girls’ dance group that favors suggestive and lascivious coreographies, to seduce the entertainment industry.

Preceded by a flattering reputation and having received awards in major international film festivals – Jury’s award at the Sundance Festival, special mention in the Berlin Festival –, the movie, although it has awkwardnesses, gives a sensible account of the identity issues of a contemporary kid that is trapped by the contradictory demands of her Senegalese family. On the “societal” level, the films also strongly denounces the early sexualization of preteens and the commercialization of it.

“My characters are torn between between two female oppressions” explained the filmmaker last August. “The one that her mother inflicts upon herself by accepting polygamy and another, found while searching for a new freedom, in which she loses herself”

Nothing to get worked over, then, and the movie’s opening day in France goes without trouble or rows.

“An erotic interest for sex”

The same cannot be said outside of Continental France’s borders. The film had been bought by the plateform Netflix for international distribution – renamed “Cuties”, and had been promoted with a different poster and far more provocative than in France – causes dissension in the United States. In the most conservative fringes of the Republican side, “they” denounce without having seen a single frame, an “obscene” movie and “they” call upon the courts to investigate possible violations of the laws of child pornography ( Nothing less ) and to demand the withdrawal of Cuties from the platform. On the front lines of this puritan fight: the extremely reactionary senator from Texas: Ted Cruz.



This week, a sudden reversal happened, since we are learning that the platform has been indicted by a Grand Jury in Texas, Tyler County, to the east of Houston. According to the plantiff, Netflix has "knowingly promoted” images that would present “obscene exhibition” of minor genitals”, causing an “erotic interest for sex”, a crime that be punished by jail time in this conservative State. We are waiting for what will follow, given that no date of hearing has been fixed at the time we write these lines.

A not so provocative Netflix

A plot from the most retrograde Republicans against Netflix, this emblem of freedom of expression and of the right to be provocative? Reality is less black-and-white than that…


The platform, although it has streamed several documentaries made by the Obama couple, has never distinguished itself by its ideological commitment. Except in an involuntary way when, in 2019, Netflix was the target of controversy and accused of censorship for having pulled out of its catalog a few episodes of South Park, so as to not vex certain communities that could have felt “insulted” by said series. Or last June, when they had erased from their same catalog an episode from the sitcom Community that had the “misfortune” to show a white character disguised as a black person.


An intolerable “blackface” according to the new norms defended by all kinds of identitarians that don’t all belong to the side of the zealous Republicans, far from it.


In the kingdom of new correctness, Netflix also does not ever try to vest itself into the virtues of resistance. And if the platform today ends up on the defenders’ bench, it is only one of many consequences of the steamroller that is the new forms of puritanism, highly prized and defended by the most “hardcore” fans of Trump, a few weeks from the US’ presidential elections.

A phenomena which, furthermore, does not only affect the Unites States. Early september, “Mignonnes” has been forbidden from being broadcasted in Turkey, after a legal action from the Ministry of Family and Social Matters of Erdogan’s gouvernment, that judged that the movie risked “to expose children to abuse and compromise their psychological development. From the United States to Turkey, from new forms of correctness “boosted” by the electoral dates to the leaden weight of censorship, “Mignonnes” has found itself under the spotlights of the worst projectors of this era...Until the next episode, alas….

As you can see, the situation is perceived so differently that I can't even laugh. Anyway, I hope this was informative.

 

[Clostridium Botulinum]

Ladies and Gentle Kiwis..I have no news on this litigation. What I do have however might be of interest to you: A French journalist's opinion of the legal matter regarding Cuties, written in French, and translated by myself. Published in Marianne, which is not exactly your run-of-the-mill left-wing newspaper, but is unfortunately affected by the plight known as Atlanticism, which means that they are..somewhat obstinate to follow America's left-wing on some points.

Original article in French

Archive

Spoiler

« Moral Order » [ Marianne likes to punctuate their articles with a nifty expression, that summarize their opinion of a matter, before getting their headlines and the article itself. ]

“Mignonnes” and Netflix : The Internationale of Puritanism is Unleashed

By Olivier De Bruyn

Published on the 9th of October, 2020.

The subject of many violent controversies in the USA, the streaming on Netflix of the movie « Cuties », by filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré continues to unleash passionate responses. The latest event to date: The announcement by the State of Texas of a legal procedure against the platform, which isn’t that provocative. A saddening state of affairs.

The controversy is certainly not at all « Mignonne » and it now takes place in the courtrooms...A quick summary : Last August, on the silver screens of Continental France, came out « Mignonnes », a movie made by Maïmouna Doucouré, which follows the adventures of a 11 years old preteen, Amy, who joins a young girls’ dance group that favors suggestive and lascivious coreographies, to seduce the entertainment industry.

Preceded by a flattering reputation and having received awards in major international film festivals – Jury’s award at the Sundance Festival, special mention in the Berlin Festival –, the movie, although it has awkwardnesses, gives a sensible account of the identity issues of a contemporary kid that is trapped by the contradictory demands of her Senegalese family. On the “societal” level, the films also strongly denounces the early sexualization of preteens and the commercialization of it.

“My characters are torn between between two female oppressions” explained the filmmaker last August. “The one that her mother inflicts upon herself by accepting polygamy and another, found while searching for a new freedom, in which she loses herself”

Nothing to get worked over, then, and the movie’s opening day in France goes without trouble or rows.

“An erotic interest for sex”

The same cannot be said outside of Continental France’s borders. The film had been bought by the plateform Netflix for international distribution – renamed “Cuties”, and had been promoted with a different poster and far more provocative than in France – causes dissension in the United States. In the most conservative fringes of the Republican side, “they” denounce without having seen a single frame, an “obscene” movie and “they” call upon the courts to investigate possible violations of the laws of child pornography ( Nothing less ) and to demand the withdrawal of Cuties from the platform. On the front lines of this puritan fight: the extremely reactionary senator from Texas: Ted Cruz.



This week, a sudden reversal happened, since we are learning that the platform has been indicted by a Grand Jury in Texas, Tyler County, to the east of Houston. According to the plantiff, Netflix has "knowingly promoted” images that would present “obscene exhibition” of minor genitals”, causing an “erotic interest for sex”, a crime that be punished by jail time in this conservative State. We are waiting for what will follow, given that no date of hearing has been fixed at the time we write these lines.

A not so provocative Netflix

A plot from the most retrograde Republicans against Netflix, this emblem of freedom of expression and of the right to be provocative? Reality is less black-and-white than that…


The platform, although it has streamed several documentaries made by the Obama couple, has never distinguished itself by its ideological commitment. Except in an involuntary way when, in 2019, Netflix was the target of controversy and accused of censorship for having pulled out of its catalog a few episodes of South Park, so as to not vex certain communities that could have felt “insulted” by said series. Or last June, when they had erased from their same catalog an episode from the sitcom Community that had the “misfortune” to show a white character disguised as a black person.


An intolerable “blackface” according to the new norms defended by all kinds of identitarians that don’t all belong to the side of the zealous Republicans, far from it.


In the kingdom of new correctness, Netflix also does not ever try to vest itself into the virtues of resistance. And if the platform today ends up on the defenders’ bench, it is only one of many consequences of the steamroller that is the new forms of puritanism, highly prized and defended by the most “hardcore” fans of Trump, a few weeks from the US’ presidential elections.

A phenomena which, furthermore, does not only affect the Unites States. Early september, “Mignonnes” has been forbidden from being broadcasted in Turkey, after a legal action from the Ministry of Family and Social Matters of Erdogan’s gouvernment, that judged that the movie risked “to expose children to abuse and compromise their psychological development. From the United States to Turkey, from new forms of correctness “boosted” by the electoral dates to the leaden weight of censorship, “Mignonnes” has found itself under the spotlights of the worst projectors of this era...Until the next episode, alas….

As you can see, the situation is perceived so differently that I can't even laugh. Anyway, I hope this was informative.

The fastest way the US can get rid of the national debt is to charge $100k a tag for pedophile hunting licenses.

 

[Roomy]

"I, Roomy, humbly submit a toast, to the united states grand jury, for successfully managing to indict Netflix incorporated into a court of law, so that they may pay, for their noncery. Congratulations Netflix, enjoy your trial." *big sip, followed by a sigh of satisfaction*

 

[Coldgrip]

If Netflix fails it will be because of horrible mismanagement independent of this particular single bad decision. It is a horribly run company though and could easily somehow go belly up. More likely it would get sold to someone more competent though because there is no way there isn't money in what it's doing.

Or, it'll fail because of a series of bad decisions like this. After all, they have enough money to make a mistake or three, so they won't go tits up immediately. But repeated fuck-ups like this have a tendency of draining the coffers quick, and when you start losing people suddenly that big heap of 'Fuck you' money isn't as big as it was before.

While I don't disagree that it'll get sold off because it can bring in money, I do think that Netflix is on limited time. It won't completely go away, but I think it's going to wind up a husk of what it once was as more and more people leave to look for different services.

 

[Bubbly Sink]

Get fucked, frenchies.

frogs get the rope

Cuties 100% is intentional softcore CP, not just because of the clothes or even the moves but simply the way it was shot.

even the plot is obvious bait. "exploring sexuality" or whatever the fuck. it's basically about grooming. disgusting.

Will this actually do anything to Netflix?

(((netflix))) has people to protect them. they might have to pay up, but it will be thrust under the rug

How does prosecuting a corporation for a crime work? If convicted do they face dissolution? Financial Penalties? Do executives get locked up?

nothing happens

NONCES GET LOCKED UP.

*raped by tyrone and shot
FTFY

 

[Sage In All Fields]

Is there really anyone who believes that?

I fail to believe there are people this sheltered.

 

[Shroom King]

Autism.

Which was created by the Jews in order to incite hatred against Sonic the Hedgehog because Sonic was going to expose their plot to take over the world using the power of bagels. Stay woke sheeple.

To be fair, I can't think of any other religion that would:

Capture the wild animals of the world and turn them into robots (golems).
Ruin the planet's environment trying to find a bunch of Emeralds.

 

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

The fastest way the US can get rid of the national debt is to charge $100k a tag for pedophile hunting licenses.

You don't need a license for that.

 

[alreadyhome]

You don't need a license for that.

Even fathers who catch pedophiles in their children's bedroom after breaking and entering and dare to disrupt one hair on their head get sent to jail. Pedophiles are a protected class. If people were actually allowed to hurt them or retaliate without ruining their own life in the process, the entire world would be transformed.

To be fair, I can't think of any other religion that would:

Capture the wild animals of the world and turn them into robots (golems).
Ruin the planet's environment trying to find a bunch of Emeralds.

Truer words have never been spoken.

 

[Fapcop]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz
Only reason the Germans didn't burn down everything is because they physically couldn't. Hard to do any sort of sustained bombing campaign when you've neglected strategic bombers, and are you really gonna tell me the Nazis were just gonna leave a bunch of untermenschen Slavs alive and free in Grossdeutschland?

If you ever graduate to reading history outside of banal Wikipedia articles, you’ll find out that there was no such thing as “General Plan Ost”.

It’s a post war construction, stitched together by numerous, separate thought-experiments, bureaucratic flights of fancy, wild speculative schemes and the kind of “planning” you get when hundreds of bureaucrats all need something to do, because anyone who doesn’t look busy gets shipped off to the Ost front.

(And when the jurisdiction of numerous departments and ministries all overlap, and they try to outcompete one another with zany plans.)


As for “the Blitz” that was of course born more of the technical limitations of bombers of the day, than any attempt to “burn everything down”. (As well as the theories of airpower of the 30ies.)

Basically the same reason why RAF switched to area bombing and depopulating cities later in the war.



Also: This indictment is stupid as fuck. It’ll get slapped down by appeals, even if they do manage to get a conviction, let alone go to trial.

The right to free speech and artistic expression is pretty solidly grounded in American law.

Unfortunately it basically doesn't matter. It just cements the controversy in the public mind as some dumb hicks versus, I dunno, some wokeshit. And child molesting gets one step closer to mainstream.



Edgelord fare or not, something like Salo or, another example, A Serbian Film are entirely clearly marketed to an adult audience, albeit a depraved adult audience. You aren't exposing children to this shit, you aren't portraying it as something positive that should be encouraged.

There would be virtually no controversy about this movie had it been marketed in a different manner.

“Exposing children to this shit”?!

Maybe this wouldn’t be a problem if we hadn’t reached a stage of cultural degeneration where families and family values are mocked and it’s acceptable to let kids and teenagers watch Netflix all day and stream whatever the hell they want.

But yeah, sure... Get outraged over some shitty French auteur movie. While 8 and 10 year olds are twerking IRL and on YouTube, wurrstarhiphop & co.

 

[D_Tractor]

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?

 

[Fapcop]

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?

No.

Even the law those loony Texans used, is pretty specific about making exceptions for “artistic value”.

 

[kcbbq]

Ladies and Gentle Kiwis..I have no news on this litigation. What I do have however might be of interest to you: A French journalist's opinion of the legal matter regarding Cuties, written in French, and translated by myself. Published in Marianne, which is not exactly your run-of-the-mill left-wing newspaper, but is unfortunately affected by the plight known as Atlanticism, which means that they are..somewhat obstinate to follow America's left-wing on some points.

Original article in French

Archive

Spoiler

« Moral Order » [ Marianne likes to punctuate their articles with a nifty expression, that summarize their opinion of a matter, before getting their headlines and the article itself. ]

“Mignonnes” and Netflix : The Internationale of Puritanism is Unleashed

By Olivier De Bruyn

Published on the 9th of October, 2020.

The subject of many violent controversies in the USA, the streaming on Netflix of the movie « Cuties », by filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré continues to unleash passionate responses. The latest event to date: The announcement by the State of Texas of a legal procedure against the platform, which isn’t that provocative. A saddening state of affairs.

The controversy is certainly not at all « Mignonne » and it now takes place in the courtrooms...A quick summary : Last August, on the silver screens of Continental France, came out « Mignonnes », a movie made by Maïmouna Doucouré, which follows the adventures of a 11 years old preteen, Amy, who joins a young girls’ dance group that favors suggestive and lascivious coreographies, to seduce the entertainment industry.

Preceded by a flattering reputation and having received awards in major international film festivals – Jury’s award at the Sundance Festival, special mention in the Berlin Festival –, the movie, although it has awkwardnesses, gives a sensible account of the identity issues of a contemporary kid that is trapped by the contradictory demands of her Senegalese family. On the “societal” level, the films also strongly denounces the early sexualization of preteens and the commercialization of it.

“My characters are torn between between two female oppressions” explained the filmmaker last August. “The one that her mother inflicts upon herself by accepting polygamy and another, found while searching for a new freedom, in which she loses herself”

Nothing to get worked over, then, and the movie’s opening day in France goes without trouble or rows.

“An erotic interest for sex”

The same cannot be said outside of Continental France’s borders. The film had been bought by the plateform Netflix for international distribution – renamed “Cuties”, and had been promoted with a different poster and far more provocative than in France – causes dissension in the United States. In the most conservative fringes of the Republican side, “they” denounce without having seen a single frame, an “obscene” movie and “they” call upon the courts to investigate possible violations of the laws of child pornography ( Nothing less ) and to demand the withdrawal of Cuties from the platform. On the front lines of this puritan fight: the extremely reactionary senator from Texas: Ted Cruz.



This week, a sudden reversal happened, since we are learning that the platform has been indicted by a Grand Jury in Texas, Tyler County, to the east of Houston. According to the plantiff, Netflix has "knowingly promoted” images that would present “obscene exhibition” of minor genitals”, causing an “erotic interest for sex”, a crime that be punished by jail time in this conservative State. We are waiting for what will follow, given that no date of hearing has been fixed at the time we write these lines.

A not so provocative Netflix

A plot from the most retrograde Republicans against Netflix, this emblem of freedom of expression and of the right to be provocative? Reality is less black-and-white than that…


The platform, although it has streamed several documentaries made by the Obama couple, has never distinguished itself by its ideological commitment. Except in an involuntary way when, in 2019, Netflix was the target of controversy and accused of censorship for having pulled out of its catalog a few episodes of South Park, so as to not vex certain communities that could have felt “insulted” by said series. Or last June, when they had erased from their same catalog an episode from the sitcom Community that had the “misfortune” to show a white character disguised as a black person.


An intolerable “blackface” according to the new norms defended by all kinds of identitarians that don’t all belong to the side of the zealous Republicans, far from it.


In the kingdom of new correctness, Netflix also does not ever try to vest itself into the virtues of resistance. And if the platform today ends up on the defenders’ bench, it is only one of many consequences of the steamroller that is the new forms of puritanism, highly prized and defended by the most “hardcore” fans of Trump, a few weeks from the US’ presidential elections.

A phenomena which, furthermore, does not only affect the Unites States. Early september, “Mignonnes” has been forbidden from being broadcasted in Turkey, after a legal action from the Ministry of Family and Social Matters of Erdogan’s gouvernment, that judged that the movie risked “to expose children to abuse and compromise their psychological development. From the United States to Turkey, from new forms of correctness “boosted” by the electoral dates to the leaden weight of censorship, “Mignonnes” has found itself under the spotlights of the worst projectors of this era...Until the next episode, alas….

As you can see, the situation is perceived so differently that I can't even laugh. Anyway, I hope this was informative.

This film is pretty tame compared to a lot of the child porn made by the French. Maladolescents (sp?) is basically a late night cable soft porn film starring two 12 year old girls. I think most of David Hamilton's films are a product of France's film industry. Cuties might be the least sexualizing of children French film ever made.

 

[AnOminous]

Even the law those loony Texans used, is pretty specific about making exceptions for “artistic value”.

They literally put that in there because it's necessary for it to be constitutional. But the important thing to remember is this "artistic value" thing is a question of fact, to be determined by a trier of fact, and that may be a judge or jury. And they decide it by "contemporary community standards."

Guess how high an opinion of a Texas court is going to be of the "artistic value" of a piece of shit like this? By their "contemporary community standards."

 

[HarblMcDavid]

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?

Fapcop answered the question directly, but allow me to suggest that you look into if that case involved the person who got caught ALSO having a bunch of unambiguous CP.

You get some interesting counter-intuitive sounding outcomes with content that might otherwise be protected when they find it in the middle of a mountain of slam-dunk CP.

This is not one of those cases.

 

[mr.moon1488]

They literally put that in there because it's necessary for it to be constitutional. But the important thing to remember is this "artistic value" thing is a question of fact, to be determined by a trier of fact, and that may be a judge or jury. And they decide it by "contemporary community standards."

Guess how high an opinion of a Texas court is going to be of the "artistic value" of a piece of shit like this? By their "contemporary community standards."

Do we know specifically in Texas where the case will be tried? There's a lot of hipster enclaves out there now.