Netflix is doing harm to children in the manner of mutilating sex-change surgeries and suicide-promoting chatbots, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley warns.
Hawley put Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos on high broil this week for the company’s “highly sexualized” agenda for children, during a Senate Judiciary hearing over the company’s proposed purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming platforms.
Hawley expounded on his withering interrogation in an exclusive interview Thursday with The Heartlander.
“You think about the Big Tech people that have developed these AI chatbots that encourage young kids to kill themselves. And you confront them with it – they just sort of shrug their shoulders. Why? Because they’re making gobs of money on it.
“Same with the Netflix people. They’re making so much money. And the fact that they’re pushing a hard-left ideological agenda – that, by the way, is pushing a line on transgender ideology that is being repudiated by doctors and physicians and counselors everywhere …”
Indeed, it’s that same transgender ideology, Hawley notes, that led doctors to perform mutilating sex-change surgery on Fox Varian when she was 16. Last Friday, a New York jury awarded her $2 million in damages for it.
Several dozen such similar lawsuits are already pending around the country.
“A jury in New York awarded millions of dollars,” Hawley noted to The Heartlander, “to a young woman who had been sucked into this transgender ideology, had her poor body butchered by a doctor. She sued the doctor. She sued the psychologist. The jury gave her millions because of the lies they told her.”
So, what’s the problem with Netflix?
“The problem is,” Hawley says, “that they are the biggest streaming platform in the world, and their children’s content is so woke it is unbelievable.
“And I told the Netflix CEO to his face: I can’t let any of my three little kids watch Netflix unless my wife or I first watch the show, review the material, look and see what’s in it – because I can’t trust them.
“And don’t take my word for it. I mean, this is a platform that put a film called Cuties, which has underage children posing for and committing sexual acts on YouTube in the video, in the movie. They put that up on their platform for all the world to see.
“This is a streaming platform that has so much transgender ideology, so much trans content in their children’s material, that the Concerned Women for America organization did a study and found over 40% – 40%! – of their children’s programming has this trans or other highly sexualized material in it.
“I mean, there’s no reason for this, other than it’s a left-wing ideological agenda.
“And I just said to them, listen, you want to become basically a monopoly – I mean, Netflix is asking for the ability to buy up another company, to get even bigger – and you’re pushing all this stuff on our kids? Boy, I think that’s a huge problem.”
As for the lawsuit award, Hawley says:
“I just said to the Netflix CEO, do you want to be in that position? Because that’s effectively what you’re doing to our kids. You’re pushing the same lies to our kids – at scale. There’s a huge problem with that.”
Was the Netflix leader chastened in any way? Will the company change its ways after Tuesday’s grilling?
Hawley chortles.
“I don’t know. He didn’t seem to be. These Hollywood guys are all alike. They’re very sure of themselves. They’ve got a gob of money and they don’t really care. They don’t care who their programs hurt. They don’t care who their products hurt.”
