They have a TV-PG rating for “tobacco depictions,” which cracked me up. Almost as funny as Star Trek TNG, which is flagged on Netflix for “sex and fear.”

- Looks like there was one disclaimer they forgot.

Are you sure it’s time to play the music?

Right. That’s what I’m saying. Morse is young, gay, and sexually active. It also shouldn’t matter if he’s having sex with his immediate peers in age or with people younger than he is, as long as it’s legal and consensual.

I hear that. And as I said, I think D’Elia’s abusive behavior is, of course, wrong. I should have also been clearer that certainly it is easy for fans to fall into abusive relationships, especially since abusers are often very good at disguising their intentions/targeting the vulnerable—and so therefore the power…

You do not know many sex workers.

Dude, look who you’re debating with. It ain’t worth it.

Meh. As recently as last summer, Alex Morse, was smeared for having consensual sexual relationships with college students, even though none were students that he had taught or advised. The smear campaign also singled him out—a gay politician—for sending students messages on Instagram “in a way that makes these…

I feel we could make more emphatic that the problem here is the harassment and the threats, how some of the women were underage, and the fact that D’Elia doesn’t address those facets head on. And that the problem is NOT that he sought sex with adult fans, or that he did so with frequency. (If he is a sex addict, that…

While the outrage over Scorses’ comments is overblown, this isn’t a conversation about liking or disliking films. He’s not acting as a critic here.

I don’t think that’s fair. The amount of craft and love he puts into his films, combined with his encyclopedic knowledge of cinema, definitely isn’t middlebrow.

I don’t think Scorsese is remotely saying that methods of distributing movies shouldn’t exist. He has set up movies at Netflix, and then Apple, because those are companies that were willing to give him money to make his movie. And rather than seeing this as hypocritical, I just think he’s pretty aware of how you need…

Your argument is so dumb it can be made against basically everything.

But the point you’re still missing though is that Netflix flattens everything to just “content” and saying that the experience of having Netflix using algorithms suggesting you crap they want you to watch sucks as a way to consume media and doesn’t help boost the ratings of their artsy shows.

Scorsese is absolutely right about the online flattening of everything to “content” and saying that the experience of having algorithms suggest you endless crap to watch - whether that’s the latest Netflix show or a cat video - sucks as a way to consume media, which seems fair to me. And most of the essay is really…

I don’t want to put words in Scorcese’s mouth, and I certainly don’t want to put down your honest and forthright opinions. But I’m suspecting that your interpretation of his words doesn’t line up with what he’s intending.

Yeah, the “cultural vegetables” mentality is strange for the reason your sister says. It’s even stranger when people are suspicious (for lack of a better word) of people who genuinely enjoy something seen as a kind of homework assignment.

“Content” in the context being used here is a problem because it reduces down art (of whatever brow) to merely something to show on e.g Netflix. Netflix doesn't really care what that content is just that is has a lot of it. For anyone seriously concerned with representation or pushing art forward this is dangerous…

Scorsese definitely appreciates his position and uses it to specifically push for more inclusion of films made by non white none male artists.

No one is making you go on the internet and read these articles. You do it to yourself.