
Netflix, whose US growth has now plateaued, has done something that falls in-between these two options, because as Bloomberg reports, the video streaming company – which is about to be existentially challenged by such bigger peers as Disney – plans to reconsider its “entire investment” in Georgia if a law restricting abortions takes effect in the state, where it films shows such as “Stranger Things” and “Ozark.”
In early May, Georgia became the fourth U.S. state this year to outlaw abortion after a doctor can detect a fetal heartbeat, although anti-abortion rights groups vowed to challenge the bill.
The new law is set to be enacted in 2020 if it survives legal challenges; It has predictably triggered the liberal bastion of Hollywood, where several filmmakers have said they would refuse to work in the state, but so far large companies have remained silent.
This is where Netflix has taken virtue signaling to a whole new level.
But what does a money-losing video streaming service have to do with state abortion rights? Well, according to Reid Hastings, everything.
“We have many women working on productions in Georgia, whose rights, along with millions of others, will be severely restricted by this law,” Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said in a statement.
“It’s why we will work with the ACLU and others to fight it in court. Given the legislation has not yet been implemented, we’ll continue to film there, while also supporting partners and artists who choose not to. Should it ever come into effect, we’d rethink our entire investment in Georgia.”
But will Netflix, which is desperate for the cheapest possible content creation really pull out, pun probably not intended, of Georgia? Somehow we doubt it.
As Bloomberg notes, Georgia has some of the most generous film and TV subsidies in the country, and it’s become a popular hub for production. AMC Networks Inc.’s “The Walking Dead” is filmed there, along with several of Walt Disney Co.’s recent hits, including “Captain America: Civil War,” “Ant-Man” and “Black Panther.”
Others virtue signalling amateurs, such as J.J. Abrams Jordan Peele, the director of “Get Out,” said they will still be shooting their show “Lovecraft Country” in the state, although they’ll donate their fees for this season to the ACLU of Georgia and Fair Fight Georgia.
But if Netflix follows through with its threat to boycott Georgia, what will it do with all the other states that plan to follow in Georgia’s footsteps?
In addition to Kentucky, Mississippi and Ohio which have all enacted heartbeat laws since mid-March, and Iowa passed one last year, and Alabama which passed a bill that would ban all abortions unless the mother’s life is threatened, a total of 15 states have introduced measures to ban abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
Will Netflix soon be stuck with only filming its money losing movies in only the most expensive of liberal states? Once again, we doubt it, but then again nothing is as money-losing as virtue signaling for the sake of, well, virtue.
Meanwhile, the Motion Picture Association of America has noted that similar legislation has been challenged in other states. “The outcome in Georgia will also be determined through the legal process,” the organization said. “We will continue to monitor developments.”
Editor:
If Netflix goes through with their ban, then it’s time to pull your subscription….


what can you say to this. Hollywood and the media world wide are just so bereft of any sense of decency and morality. Look at what they churn out in the name of entertainment for starters. Most of it an ode to their god satan, and much of it indoctrination to the NWO agenda.
How it is when a baby is wanted by parents, they are called just that – a baby.
Yet when the baby is unwanted, and abortion is considered the answer as the best birth control out there, the baby is deemed a parasite, a bunch of cells and the rest these men and women choose to call the unwanted unborn. Never heard any parent to be let their friends and family know they are pregnant with a bunch of cells or a parasite when that child is wanted and cherished. Those who love to spill the blood of the unborn, dehumanise them in every way possible,as they try to block out the reality they are taking another human life. They cry out for the rights of the lgbt’s, muslims, feminists and blacks, whilst taking away the rights of the unborn, How many babies have been aborted over the yrs, all in the name of convenience. Sad when the living think their life is so much more worthy than the baby conceived but yet to be born. They will never know what that unborn child would of grown up to become, because they decided that their rights matter more
So whilst they go on about women’s rights, how many unborn females are discarded like trash, as if being a female ,and having rights should only happen once you are alive.
The blood from every aborted baby still cries out to God , and the day of reckoning is fast approaching for all who support this heinous crime.