Republicans attack ‘woke’ Netflix — and ignore YouTube
TL;DR
Republicans at a Senate hearing shifted focus from antitrust issues to criticize Netflix for promoting 'woke' content, while ignoring YouTube's influence. The questioning targeted children's programming and transgender ideology on the streaming service.
When Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos entered the Senate office building on Tuesday, he got thrown a curveball. What started as a standard antitrust hearing relating to the Warner Bros. merger quickly devolved into a performative Republican attack about the spread of "woke" ideology on the streaming service. At the same time, arguably a much more influential platform was completely ignored: YouTube.
After grilling Sarandos about residual payments, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) launched into a completely different line of questioning: "Why is it that so much of Netflix content for children promotes a transgender ideology?" Hawley asked, making an unsub …