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> That said, other Louis CK content is still available on the Netflix service. > We’ve reached out to Netflix asking if they have any plans to remove other Lou
by pluma 9y ago
> That said, other Louis CK content is still available on the Netflix service.
> We’ve reached out to Netflix asking if they have any plans to remove other Louis CK content from the platform.
Public statements like this always smell of activism more than journalism. Sure, it's an obvious question and it's transparent to report on questions you've asked but not yet received a statement about. But in this context, it's obvious that it puts public pressure on Netflix. It's shifting the goal posts.
This isn't a political interest group asking this, it's a journalist on a news site. The author seems to subscribe to the idea that the only moral conclusion of the confirmed allegations is complete "no-platform"-ing him by removing all his content and anything less is hypocritical at best or making the company complicit at worst.
I'm not going to defend the man or his actions but whether the person can be seen as separate from the art is a difficult question and it seems inappropriate for a news article to position itself this firmly on its conclusion.