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Netflix Chief Ted Sarandos Fires Back At ‘Cuties’ Controversy: “It’s Surprising In 2020 America That We’re Having A Discussion About Censoring Storytelling”
Deadline ^ | October 12, 2020 | Jake Kanter

Posted on 10/12/2020 11:49:36 AM PDT by EdnaMode

Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos has voiced shock that a censorship debate has sprung up around the controversial Cuties film after a Texas grand jury indicted the streamer over the feature.

In comments at the virtual Mipcom market on Monday, Sarandos said Cuties was misunderstood in America after the indictment claimed it “appeals to the prurient interest in sex, and has no serious, literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.”

Defending the Maïmouna Doucouré-directed feature, which focuses on an 11-year-old Senegalese-French girl, who is torn between her traditional Muslim family and her dance troupe friends, Sarandos said: “It’s a little surprising in 2020 America that we’re having a discussion about censoring storytelling.”

He added: “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 theatres throughout Europe without any of this controversy.”

He also made clear that Netflix did not attempt to make any changes to Cuties’ content before its premiere in September. Sarandos was not pressed, however, on Netflix’s marketing of the show, which the streamer retracted and apologized for after critics claimed that artwork of the dance troupe sexualized children.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: boycottnetflix; childabuse; cuties; hollywood; hollywoodpedo; hollywoodpedophile; hollywoodpedophiles; hollywoodpedos; netflix; pedo; pedophilia; pedos; sarandos; tedsarandos; tedtheped
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To: EdnaMode

I’ve been a two-at-a-time DVD rental customer of Netflix since 2006. They are an outstanding company for that.

I don’t watch TV and thus don’t have a use for the streaming service. Nevertheless I have become increasingly distraught at Netflix’s climbing in bed with the Nobamas, etc. Cuties is the final straw. If I was a Netflix streamer, that service would be cancelled immediately. Sarandos can make all the excuses he wants; exploiting eleven year olds does not belong on TV.


21 posted on 10/12/2020 12:09:07 PM PDT by upchuck (Congressional subpoenas. Congressional hearings. Criminal referrals to the FBI. It's all just Kabuki)
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To: EdnaMode
It’s Surprising In 2020 America That We’re Having A Discussion About Censoring Storytelling

He’s surprised because the Left had assumed they have already destroyed all sexual standards in society as a whole, and in broadcasting in particular.

22 posted on 10/12/2020 12:09:43 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: EdnaMode

Making Kiddie Porn to warn about the dangers of Kiddie Porn.

Is that still their Official Statement??


23 posted on 10/12/2020 12:12:17 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: EdnaMode
Netflix crossed into soft porn a long time ago. It tested the waters in hard core porn earlier this year. Sarandos clearly thought kiddie porn was simply the next step in the company's drive to be the industry leader. The corporate philosophy is perfectly clear. The solution should begin with firing Sarandos and the entire executive team involved with the decision to purchase Cuties. If there is no leadership with integrity on the Netflix board, it is time for a shareholders revolt. If it has to begin with a lonely gadfly with 100 shares, so be it. Plant the flag and declare war.

This would be an opportunity for a strategic intervention by some astute conservative groups. Let them begin by buying stock. There's no limit to how many can play, but it would be smart to do some serious thinking about branding and the choice of the spokesperson to become the face of the resistance. Come to think of it, someone like Amy Coney Barrett would be absolutely perfect. Unfortunately she's going to be too busy to take it on. Oh well, I imagine we could come up with some good alternatives. The first objective would be replacement of the current management team. The second objective, pursued concurrently, would be election of decency minded candidates to board positions. The major institutional investors who control most of the stock should be under intense, all-fronts pressure to vote appropriately. Attack this the way the left pressures corporate America on its issues.

24 posted on 10/12/2020 12:15:47 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: EdnaMode

Pedophiles have always argued that in these cases it is only fantasy or storytelling. Only this time real children were used.


25 posted on 10/12/2020 12:17:54 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: EdnaMode

A youtuber by the Name of Tim Poole pointed out that the same story could of been told with out exposing the children in this film to the same abuse that the director/writer claims that it is criticizing....there was no need to showing the twerking, there was no need zeroing in on the children’s gentile area while filming. the whole story could of been told with out using the garbage they put in. This movie was more about normalizing the acceptance of it within society...the criticism the director claims the movie to be was more about giving cover. this film will for ever referd to as a film made by adults exploiting children and was filmed for an audience of the type that excepts Pretty baby or blue lagoon.


26 posted on 10/12/2020 12:18:17 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (wwg1wga)
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To: EdnaMode

Ted is sympathetic to those groups who like to think of themselves as enlightened about deviant sexuality, and are pushing for a major relaxing of laws concerning pedophilia.


27 posted on 10/12/2020 12:20:51 PM PDT by robel
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To: EdnaMode
No, what we are witnessing is how porn mongers are pushing further and further until even previously tolerant people have had enough.
This has happened many times in history.
I witnessed this myself in Sweden in the 60's. Whole streets with porn shops and explicit windows displays until one day a sufficient majority were fed up and the shops forced to close.

28 posted on 10/12/2020 12:23:05 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: EdnaMode

Cancel Netflix. I did. It felt really good. Plenty of other things to watch. Their content is morally depraved.


29 posted on 10/12/2020 12:23:15 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: EdnaMode

We’ve canceled Netflix and so have many of our friends.

Damn pedophiles.


30 posted on 10/12/2020 12:24:35 PM PDT by Raymond Pamintuan
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To: EdnaMode

they dont mond censoring real life evengs being written down and posted online


31 posted on 10/12/2020 12:36:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EdnaMode

It is much worse that we are censoring the truth.


32 posted on 10/12/2020 12:37:14 PM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Oh I see,...it’s just a STORY.

Gotcha.

You Netflix Freaks. Just a matter of time.


33 posted on 10/12/2020 12:45:21 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: EdnaMode

I think Ted has a secret


34 posted on 10/12/2020 12:49:53 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: EdnaMode

sad that he has kids ..


35 posted on 10/12/2020 12:53:58 PM PDT by ßuddaßudd ((>> M A G A << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: rlmorel

He doesn’t have to point out the moral superiority of the American people to us. We get it.


36 posted on 10/12/2020 12:54:16 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: lastchance

No kidding!


37 posted on 10/12/2020 1:09:53 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Leftism is the plaything of a society with too much time on its hands." - Candace Owens)
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To: EdnaMode

Horsesh*t, Sarandos.
You assholes censor stories all the time.


38 posted on 10/12/2020 1:13:35 PM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: EdnaMode

What is not surprising is that this piece of excrement can’t tell the difference between storytelling and pedophilia........nah, I am sure he can and this filth was made to tell a story to a select audience of pedophiles.


39 posted on 10/12/2020 1:55:43 PM PDT by Mastador1
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To: EdnaMode

We are going to have to start jailing and/or executing these degenerates before they stop exploiting children. Can we please go back to the rule of law, after the war?


40 posted on 10/12/2020 2:06:49 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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