So if victims don’t want their abuse to be public record, they have no remedy at all?

Netflix is about as interested in helping Hulu as vice versa.

Online word of mouth is probably the most quantifiable data they have that would reflect that, and Netflix isn’t any more privy to that than anyone else.

Unlike the rent seekers who are truly wealthy, the kardashians do sort of work. I mean, it’s not really acting from an artistic sense, but reality tv star is like acting in a labor sense. Not that they don’t deserve tumbrils too, but the real scions of wealth are more anonymous.

I don’t see how Netflix’s ratings would affect their ad buying. They don’t care about viewership. They care about subscribers.

Let’s assume every episode of Stranger Things has 200 million unique viewers, making it more viewed than any other show ever.

Netflix’s competitors don’t worry about Nielsen ratings out of the goodness of their hearts, either.

Netflix doesn’t sell ads. Why would they give a fuck about Nielsen ratings? The ideal Netflix consumer, unlike the ideal NBC consumer, wouldn’t watch any shows, but would just continue paying because he forgot to cancel a free trial. Netflix is more like a gym than a tv network, business-wise.

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I’m tired of complicitly looking the other way. This has gone on far too long. I have to speak out. You don’t need a paragraph break between every sentence.

It also matters whether the NDA is with Harvey or with the Weinstein Company. The company has much stronger incentives now not to try to enforce the NDA against a rape victim, as they would like to keep doing business.

Weinstein could sue for breach of contract. But unless he won on summary judgment, there’d be discovery, which would mean McGowan’s lawyers would get to grill Weinstein under oath about whether he raped her. Weinstein probably does not want to do that, so he’d be better off not doing that.

Oh, I can definitely imagine myself being corrupted into being a murderer, or non-corruptly killing in self-defense.

I’m pretty sure I could spend all day exploring all my desires every day for eternity, and it might get pretty weird but it wouldn’t end in rape.

Then why else would removing the fear of consequences turn a normal man into a rapist?

Five years from now, a Weinstein-produced, Polanski-directed movie gets best picture.

It’s two hours of the same joke about getting wood for sheep.

This illustrates how undermining laws and norms about speech will hurt minorities way more than it would hurt, e.g., white supremacists.

You’re assuming that it’s normal to want to rape people, and that the only thing keeping men from rape is fear of consequences.

Knowing you can get away with it doesn’t turn you into a criminal.