(Washington Examiner) Nearly three dozen Republican lawmakers are hoping to see Netflix get prosecuted over the controversial movie Cuties.
Indiana Rep. Jim Banks and 33 other Republicans in the House sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr on Thursday. The lawmakers are urging the Department of Justice to prosecute Netflix executives for distributing the movie on their platform, which they said “clearly” meets the legal definition of child pornography.
“The First Amendment protects corporations and individuals from obscenity law if they can prove artistic expression, but this protection rightfully does not apply to child pornography. Cuties is child pornography and its distributors should be prosecuted accordingly,” the letter reads. “Cuties’ defenders claim that the film intends to criticize the objectification of young girls. The reality is that Cuties does depict minors engaged in sexually explicit acts. It’s visual fodder for pedophiles and its message is beside the point.”