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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the talk-to-your-kids dept.

The controversial show about teen suicide millions of your friends on Twitter are talking about is getting increased content warnings.

The move is the latest in the conversation about the Netflix original program "13 Reasons Why", coming as a response to the backlash and concern about the show's suitability for young viewers.

The streamer released a statement Monday promising to "add an additional viewer warning card before the first episode." It has also "strengthened the messaging and resource language in the existing cards for episodes that contain graphic subject matter, including the URL 13ReasonsWhy.info."

Mental health organisations in Australia reported increased calls and emails since the program's launch in March. In April, New Zealand's classification body ruled that Netflix would have to display a clear warning for the entire series as well as individual episodes, branding it with the region's first ever RP18 rating. The new classification -- created for the program -- recommends people under the age of 18 watch the program only under the supervision of a parent or guardian.


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @02:04PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @02:04PM (#503631)

    the fittest will survive. It's hard to get all worked up about those that don't.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @02:28PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @02:28PM (#503646)

    You are clearly not the fittest. I think you know what has to be done

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @06:01PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @06:01PM (#503800)

      OK, we have our tag line. Let's pencil in Anne Robinson as the host...

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday May 03 2017, @03:34PM (2 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @03:34PM (#503693) Journal

    Being fittest should not be about handling complete morons in school. But handling real challenges in adult life. Elon Musk was for example thrown down a staircase in school by bullies. If he died, we would not had SpaceX or Tesla. But we surely would have the "fittest" people around to survive bullies. That selection bias sucks. And it's better to thwart these youngster thugs in the bud.

    The thing is that being fittest for thugs is not something that is fittest for the society at large. Eliminate the thugs and let people take on the real challenges instead. The thugs can be deported to some 3rd world country where they will feel at home.

    • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Wednesday May 03 2017, @04:50PM (1 child)

      by Immerman (3985) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @04:50PM (#503759)

      Surviving childhood has always been an important fitness test - one that most individuals of all species have traditionally failed.

      Moreover, the most effective thugs have pretty much been in control of human society at least since the dawn of civilization, so being able to deal with them is in fact probably a valuable survival trait for our species.

      It can be gratifying to speculate about what the world might be like without the thugs, but pretty much all of recorded history thus far has been a tale of how one band of thugs managed to wrest control from another band, either through treachery, open conflict, or manipulating the masses into doing their dirty work for them. Things seem to be improving overall, at least when looking at the long term, but slowly enough that it will probably be centuries if not millenia before we see a world that isn't run by thugs. And evolution cares nothing for the future - it only selects for traits that aid in survival *today*.

      • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday May 03 2017, @06:20PM

        by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 03 2017, @06:20PM (#503814)

        That's a useful way to look at it, because if Musk had not survived the staircase it would be hyper-American of us to go on a crusade about that individual physical staircase being unsafe, staircase control, staircase regulation, staircase confiscation, staircase safety training, make kids wear helmets 24x7 not just while on bikes, the one individual bully who physically touched him last because surely the 318 million person culture only has one guy who's the only problem in the whole country, etc. The one thing we as Americans would never go after as a response would be as you mentioned, "thugs as a class of problem".

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @03:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @03:35PM (#503695)

    Darwin did a description of nature, not a prescription of human behaviour. Your basic fallacy here is: "It happens in nature, so it must be good."