Netflix's 'Squid Game' receives warning from parents council for being 'incredibly violent'
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The Parents Television and Media Council (PTC) told Fox News its hoping to “alert parents” to the bevy of “Squid Game”-inspired content that is being uploaded across various media
In an op-ed published on the organization’s website Wednesday, the PTC’s program director, Melissa Henson, wrote that despite the mature rating attached to the "incredibly violent" show, an even greater concern "is the way ‘Squid Game’ is being promoted to viewers too young to watch the TV-MA-rated series on social media platforms."
"Netflix should be acting as a gatekeeper to ensure content that is harmful to minors is not being distributed on their platform," she told Fox News, "and that also includes highly sexualized content like ‘Big Mouth’ and content that might inspire self-harm, like ‘13 Reasons Why.’"
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