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** Despite being ideologically neutral themselves, Discord and Telegram were also noted by some organisations as having been used by right-wing extremist groups as well, though Discord has since shut down and banned those who sympathise with such movements.
* While piracy is obviously a moral gray area at best, the now-defunct The Pirate Bay Clean (TPBCLEAN) billed itself as being a more modest alternative to torrent sites, particularly the original Pirate Bay, as most if not all of them are littered with pornographic content and ads for adult sites. There's an option to turn them off on TPB and the others, but for the most part adult content tends to be enabled by default, hence the initiative for a "family-friendly" alternative, besides the fact that most of the Indian programmers the author hired weren't up to doing work on a site that served smut.
* A number of companies have formed moral substitutes to Netflix, either catering to religious communities or as a more family-friendly alternative:
** While not necessarily meant as a "madrassa or masjid" i.e. a strictly religiously orientated streaming service, [https://www.alchemiya.com/ Alchemiya] was billed by news sources as 'The Muslim Netflix' due to its library of content geared towards Muslims (and those interested in Arab and/or Islamic culture), with Alchemiya's founders expressing their desire to counter stereotypes propagated by mainstream film studios and streaming providers whose works often if not always portray Muslims as terrorists. Alchemiya also stated in their about page that rather than just mount a bitter (if not violent as in the case of highly-controversial works such as the infamous ''Innocence of Muslims'' film) protest, they instead chose to paint Islam in a more wholesome and empowering light by producing and distributing films, series and documentaries "that celebrate the culture, arts, people, places, ideas and achievements of Muslims past and present".
** Ditto with the Christian streaming service [https://www.pureflix.com/ Pureflix].
** ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' creator Butch Hartman attempted to start his own family-friendly streaming service called "Oaxis", but that fell through when it was revealed that the "family-friendly" moniker actually meant it was more aligned to his fundamentalist Christian beliefs.
** [[Disney+]] is this for the most part, as they do not carry any R-rated content. It is averted internationally, however, as their Star section features R-rated films. Not to mention that films whose content would otherwise be unsuitable for the platform such as ''X-Men: Days of Future Past'', which contains both nudity and the word "fuck", have started to be aired uncensored in 2020.
== Western Animation ==
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