All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XVII

[Bob Schroeck]

The Netflix Internet Defense Force later tried to whitewash it into this:

While you may be right, I'd rather not trust anonymous reports. As Rob and I have both noted, there are and always have been elements who are never above exaggerating and outright lying about a film's content in order to justify censorship. I have seen the most innocent moments painted as explicit sexuality by some of these "crusaders". What you portray as "whitewashing" here may well be replacing deliberate misrepresentation with a more accurate summation of the content.

I think we all know just from ATT that "first to post" does not equal "most authoritative source".

I'm also going to trust to the enlightened self-interest of Netflix and their lawyers. Genuine child pornography would never get on the service simply because they'd immediately become a target of every jurisdiction they transmitted to. Their own legal and standards departments would never put the corporation at risk in that way. If I'm wrong I'll gladly admit it, but I'm feeling the way to bet here is that the whitewash is on the accusation side, not the filmmakers' side.