We just cancelled Netflix and so should you

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Oh, okay. I thought you meant it was a new
series they had made. Thanks.
 
Thankfully, I haven’t become attached to Netflix, and wasn’t planning on doing so anyway. There’s definitely no chance of that now.
 
phil19034 said:
I haven’t cancelled Netflix, and I’m not ready to so just yet because I cancelled cable long ago.

However, I’m starting to think about it more and more. But the issues are not unique to Netflix… it’s all of the television & film industries.
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I am in the same boat. Who wants to pay for cable, it is a fortune for nothing. None the less, I am not happy at all about hearing this. I am very willing however as a resident of the north Atlanta suburbs, to write a note to Ted and tell him that he and his grubby little Hollywood outfit can just pack up and leave Georgia right now, and good riddance. They can go RIGHT back to paying California taxes and overhead. We can just wait for another car factory.
 
Thanks for the info. We used to be subscribed the netflix but for some reason lately we camt log in due to lack of payment strange, since the card is on auto renew. But I think that it has been a blessing as well. People say bocyotts dont woek. Personally, i do not want to support or give money to those hat engage in activities hat are immoral. It is true that no one is perfect and all organizations have engaged in immorality one way or another. But i try to avoid what i can, sometimes I am unable to.
 
Somehow I don’t see the connection between abortion and the next seasons of Supergirl, Twilight Zone, and Fuller House. Always trying to stir up trouble.
 
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Finn said:
13 Reasons Why was the nail in the coffin of my subscription.
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I found it a fantastic show. Wouldn’t recommend it to anyone unstable though - and season 2 was mostly garbish.
 
I can only vouch for the first season and a half of Supergirl. It’s certainly pro LGBT in the negative sense of promoting homosexual relations, but on the other hand it’s mostly light-hearted fun. I wouldn’t let my teenage kid watch it, but it’s also not R-rated at all, and it certainly wouldn’t be a near occasion of sin for me (though I tired of the plot later on).
Edit: I don’t have kids, it’s purely on the hypothetical.
 
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I found it a fantastic show. Wouldn’t recommend it to anyone unstable though - and season 2 was mostly garbish.
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Netflix ignored the advice of professionals that they approached who informed them that the show would cause an uptick in youth suicide. They were advised not to run the series and ran it anyway.

It was subsequently shown to be associated with a c30% increase in youth suicide in the US alone.

Netflix has renewed for a third season.
 
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Yes. I’m not saying Netflix did right. They’re a major corporation without scruples. Like so many others. I’m just saying I thought the series was well done and interesting. I liked it.
 
While I understand where you are coming from, I honestly don’t think canceling Netflix because of problems with some of their shows will make any difference to anything. You just won’t get to watch the shows that are still entertaining while not being obscene.

The US is capitalist. Given that, how do you fix Netflix? Create a high quality alternative that offers a similar type of streaming of TV shows. Without an alternative, Netflix will not change.
 
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We aren’t safe anywhere unfortunately.
You can’t even watch network television without seeing homosexuality promoted.
Netflix is even worse.
I don’t understand it honestly. I see more homosexual romance on tv than I have ever seen in public. Am I just living in a cave or is it just life to meet a gay person everytime you meet a new group of people?
 
That is true. Should I also cancel my cell phone plan and Internet?

I believe one day the consumers will have their say.
 
It’s embarrassing how much TV we have anyways. Our Netflix subscription cancelled on May 17th, but my kids sometimes beg they want it back. But we have Amazon Prime Video, Hulu which we get free, and our cable provider has On Demand, plus we can record live TV. It’s way too much, and now with Netflix promoting abortion, it gives us more of a reason not to renew.
 
Depends on the circles you move in. I did a fitness class yesterday, 4 or 5 out of 9 were gay I think. Granted, that was a bit of an anomaly but there are usually a couple of gay people in my classes. Many times I walk down my street I see a gay couple holding hands. I think my neighbours are probably gay. But that’s just the demographic I live in. Most of the people making the Netflix shows likely live in a similar one? I reckon there might be less gay people on the tv shows I watch than in my actual life.

Then again, I don’t watch a lot of TV. I cancelled Netflix because I wasn’t using it. And with all the new streaming services, their content is getting smaller and smaller.

Side note: The rise in streaming services monopolizing certain shows will be the cause of a resurgence in piracy (unfortunately). No one is going to pay for 5 or 6 different streaming services.
 
losh14 said:
Sometimes I wish businesses would just be businesses, hire people, make products, pay taxes and shut the heck up.
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Indeed. 😝 It does make me a bit uncomfortable to see businesses trying to strong-arm legislators. It doesn’t seem like the healthiest expression of our democratic republic.
 
Those posters kind of remind me of the “coexist” bumper stickers. At least communism hates all religions equally!
 
Never saw the need to subscribe to Netflix or cable service. Too many other things to do.
 
I think we should be working on ways to infiltrate Netflix, not alienate then.

Pop culture is a reflection of who we are, imo. We need to change hearts to change policy.
 
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