Republican congressmen from Arizona and Colorado have demanded an investigation of “potential exploitation of youngsters” within the now-infamous twerking-preteens movie Cuties, arguing it encourages youngster sexual exploitation.
Reps. Andy Biggs (Arizona) and Ken Buck (Colorado) have urged the Justice Division to “open an investigation to make sure the movie and its manufacturing uphold federal legal guidelines defending youngsters from exploitation,” expressing their considerations in a letter to Lawyer Basic William Barr. Buck shared the letter together with his followers on Twitter on Tuesday.
“Cuties” creates an atmosphere that encourages the exploitation of youngsters. We can’t stand idly by whereas @Netflix distributes this disturbing movie. @RepAndyBiggsAZ and I are urging @TheJusticeDept to research instantly. https://t.co/U8YncY6hPo pic.twitter.com/w3k7IjvZXX
— Congressman Ken Buck (@RepKenBuck) September 14, 2020
Explaining that the movie options younger women performing “sexually provocative dances,” preteen partial nudity, and different questionable materials, the congressmen warned that not solely is there a risk the kid actresses had been exploited, however the movie “creates an atmosphere the place the sexual abuse and exploitation of youngsters by pedophiles is normalized.” Buck and Biggs reminded those that would possibly defend the movie on free speech grounds that the First Modification doesn’t shield “content material that victimizes minors” and argued the specific performances seen all through Cuties represent an “affront to the youngsters’s dignity” whereas selling the kid intercourse commerce.
They alluded to the movie business being rife with youngster sexual abuse, an disagreeable and long-ignored actuality that also stays largely unacknowledged even within the wake of #MeToo, exterior of a handful of disgraced celebrities. In addition they particularly steered Barr’s division look into “these concerned within the movie’s casting and manufacturing to make sure these women weren’t exploited behind the scenes.”
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Whereas it’s extraordinarily unlikely that US regulation may be utilized retroactively to the filming of Cuties – initially titled Mignonnes, it was made in France, with French youngsters within the roles of the eponymous twerking dance troupe – Netflix is a US firm, making them arguably complicit at the least within the distribution of a movie that has sparked outrage across the nation.
Biggs and Buck are solely the newest members of Congress to sentence the award-winning movie. Republican Senator Ted Cruz (Texas) has additionally known as for an investigation, sending his personal letter to Barr on Friday, whereas Rep. Jim Banks (R-Indiana) and Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) have denounced the movie as “fodder for pedophiles.” Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) additionally joined the refrain, warning the movie would “whet the urge for food of pedophiles and assist gas the kid intercourse trafficking commerce” and urging her Twitter followers to #CancelNetflix.
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