(ChurchLeaders) A new report from the Parents Television Council (PTC) has found that the most common rating on Netflix’s teen programming is TV-MA. Because the TV-MA rating designates content for adults and not teenagers, this means that “by definition, the programming is unsuitable for the audience for whom it is intended.” Moreover, the study found “harsh profanity” to be “nearly ubiquitous” in content rated for teens.
“Either the content is being rated inaccurately, or there has been considerable ‘ratings creep’ with the criteria used to determine an age-based rating,” say the report’s authors.