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Netflix’s third-quarter miss may be due to backlash over sexually exploitative content

By Tim Winter, Donna Rice Hughes
Published November 19, 2020 5:00am ET
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Netflix’s third-quarter miss may be due to backlash over sexually exploitative content
FILE - In this July 20, 2010 file photo, a person uses Netflix in Palo Alto, Calif. Netflix is tapping into six new markets on Monday hoping to gain hundred thousand new subscribers and balance out the billions spent on entertainment content each year. Their presence is welcome in most European countries, but in France Netflix is facing government-imposed regulatory hurdles and pressure from established local competitors. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) | Paul Sakuma

Netflix may not be the sure thing in streaming entertainment any longer, having missed its third-quarter subscription target.

What has received little attention, likely because Netflix wanted to sweep it under the rug, was a potential cause for its subscriber miss: The company faces a criminal indictment from a Texas grand jury for its sexually exploitative film, Cuties.

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