Thread by @lsanger

Netflix was indicted by a Texas grand jury for "promotion of lewd visual material depicting child."

In other words, Netflix does not have any right to broadcast child pornography, or anything through its lewdness resembles child pornography.

newsweek.com/cuties-netflix…

Here's a copy of the indictment.

https://twitter.com/RepMattSchaefer/status/1313517817942212608

Unfortunately, Tyler County is a rural county in wooded east Texas. Not exactly a powerhouse. But it's a start.

The indictment reads in part that Netflix "knowingly promote[d] material which depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child who was younger than 18 years of age at the time the visual material was created..."

"...which appeals to the prurient interest in sex, and has no serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value..."

This of course will be the point on which Netflix will push back. Of course it has "artistic" value, they will say.

But then, some future X-rated version of Lolita, which would be literal child porn, could make precisely the same argument, and then it would certainly be tossed out.

Or, if it isn't, then we're well and truly doomed.