00:00My three children, I can't let them watch anything they want on Netflix.
00:03I can't let them watch anything on Netflix unless I preview it.
00:06Why is it that so much of Netflix content for children promotes a transgender ideology?
00:14Almost half of your content for children, I'm talking about minor children now, I'm not talking about teenagers.
00:19Minor children promotes a transgender ideology agenda.
00:22If you turn on Netflix, you'll find that an enormous amount, and I say this as a parent with three young children,
00:28an enormous amount of your children's programming has this ideology and agenda in it.
00:34Is this an advocacy position for Netflix?
00:37Is this an ideological commitment you have?
00:40I mean, why is this?
00:41Senator Ali, Netflix has no political agenda of any kind.
00:44I would tell you that-
00:45Well, then why is your children's program so full of this highly sexualized, highly controversial, highly controversial agenda?
00:55I don't understand it.
00:56It seems strange to me.
00:57Respectfully, sir, it's because it's inaccurate.
00:59We have millions of hours of children's programming.
01:02You're saying it's not there.
01:03You don't have trans, you don't feature trans characters, trans storylines, trans themes.
01:08It's not in your programming.
01:09I'm saying we feature a wide variety of stories and programs to meet a wide variety of people's tastes.
01:14Why does almost half of it, why does almost half of your children's program feature this highly controversial, highly sexualized material?
01:22That just seems strange to me.
01:23It can't possibly be a reflection of the population.
01:28Senator Ali, I don't have any idea where that number would come from or what that would be.
01:31I don't believe that's been your personal experience.
01:33Well, what do you mean you don't think it's been my personal experience?
01:35You don't think that I monitor what my children watch?
01:37Here's what I tell you what my personal experience is since you bring it up.
01:40My personal experience is that my three children, I can't let them watch anything they want on Netflix.
01:45I can't let them watch anything on Netflix unless I preview it because I don't have confidence in what's on your platform.
01:50I don't know what they're going to encounter, and I tell you what, I don't want my kids being pushed into gender about their sexuality or gender identity
01:57when I have not had the opportunity first to discuss it with them and to form them in that.
02:02I don't know. That seems pretty concerning to me.
02:04I know you make a gob of money on it, and maybe that's the answer.
02:08But it just seems to me that it's a disservice to the parents of this country,
02:11particularly given what's happening with our youth on this subject.
02:14Like I said, we have millions of hours of content on Netflix at any given time.
02:18We have state-of-the-art tools for you to manage those choices for your children
02:22and to block any title that you might be offended by for any reason.
02:27So we are parents at Netflix as well.
02:30We share all your concerns about raising kids and also the ability to raise them as you see fit in your household
02:35and anyone else in this household as well.
02:38My concern is that you don't share my values or those of many other American parents,
02:43and you want the United States government to allow you to become one of the largest,
02:47if not the largest streaming monopolists in the world.
02:51I think we ought to be concerned about what content you're promoting.
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