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by J.P. Balmet

Hey, Canada…👀

"I'm so sorry! Wasn't looking where I was going at all," you hear a voice say in a rush, and watch them grimace apologetically.

-- The Nameless, by @parkerlyn

Yes, there's an open question of whether Facebook should allow sharing and discussion of offensive or inflammatory content - maybe it's a little more cut-and-dried if you think about whether Google should index that kind of content in its search results, or whether a public or school library should carry it and make it accessible to readers. But these are really fundamentally different things from talking about criticism of a company that directly pays someone millions of dollars to create that content, to bring it into the world, and does that in the hope of realizing a profit on the invested capital. That's a business decision, and it reflects on the company.

If a publishing house is known for publishing white nationalists then they get called a "white nationalist publisher," and fairly so. Netflix wants to have their cake and eat it too, in terms of making money by producing and distributing transphobic content but then not to be labeled a "transphobic producer." And the way they're making that argument is by pretending to be in the same position, neutrally mediating between content and consumer, as Facebook or Google. But even disregarding their role in producing that content, this only works if Netflix is the only way you are getting TV and movie content streamed to you online. And yes, that's what Netflix wants, that's how they originally envisioned their service as working, but that ship sailed a long time ago.

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