Why is your brand endorsing racism and sexual exploitation? I've learned that Comcast is selling exploitive material through its Xfinity on-demand videos, and premium channel services. Please publically change your policy to sell this material immediately. Comcast has defended hardcore sexual videos depicting themes of racism, sexism, incest, and more as a benefit to "customer choice." This is an outrage, and swift action should be taken to remove all of these videos and channels, which is inherently sexually exploitive and anti-woman. Moreover, the pornographic material being distributed by Comcast Xfinity likely violates U.S. law, 18 U.S. Code Section 1468, which prohibits distribution of obscene matter by means of cable or subscription services on television. Your brand is being associated with these themes, and I now have a lowered interest in your company as a result. Companies like Hilton Worldwide, Overstock.com, and Hyatt Hotels Corporation have all moved to eliminate explicit material from their business model. Will Comcast be the leader in the telecommunications industry and get rid of this sexually exploitive content? Please act today to publicly change your policy and offerings.

Comcast provides dozens of pornography titles via its Cinemax, Playboy, Vivid, Hustler, TEN, and Too Much for TV channels and subscriptions. All in all, by one review conducted in April 2016, there were 515 X-rated offerings on Comcast’s Xfinity. Many of the pornography titles offered by Comcast Xfinity contain themes of incest, racism, sexism, prostitution, and exploitation. Our society is struggling to cope with the impacts of multiple forms of sexual abuse and violence: child sexual abuse, adult sexual exploitation, racially-motivated sexual violence, sex trafficking, and more. These problems have not emerged from a vacuum but flourish within the context of unprecedented access to hardcore pornographic material. Adult, hardcore pornography—with its raw, brutal, debasing, violent and hate-filled themes—exacerbates the deeply entrenched social ills mentioned above and unleashes devastating impacts at the individual and societal level. Please STOP selling this material!

The Comcast Code of Conduct Handbook states: “. . . it is our actions—how we perform day in and day out—that will ensure our success. It’s as simple as doing the right thing and treating people the right way.” Unfortunately, Comcast is distributing and profiting from the degradation, abuse, and violence found in hardcore sexually graphic material that Comcast sells on-demand and on premium channels is a far cry from “doing the right thing and treating people the right way.” Please stop selling this graphic material and channels! In the age of #MeToo, your company must hold itself to a higher standard.