The controversy over Netflix’s Dave Chappelle special The Closer continued today with allegations that employees had raised concerns about the doc before it debuted, reports of a planned walk…
from Bloomberg said that Netflix staffers raised flags aboutin the days before it was released, specifically “that a series of jokes about gender-neutral pronouns and the genitalia ofSarandos apparently addressed those and other concerns in a memo sent to employees on Monday.Variety, the co-CEO wrote about “trade-offs” and “the principles that guide our team’s content choices,” before focusing on “titles which could increase real world harm.
Replying to a string of tweets from the people who maintain the account — which included “sorry we haven’t been posting, this week f*cking sucks” — commenters said: “Excuse me why aren’t _YOU_ standing up for “our” community? You do recognize how crappy your company is being, right? Please tell me you recognize”“…this year I gave myself the gift of unsubscribing from Netflix, because I won’t give my money to companies that fund and platform transphobia ”sorry we haven’t been posting, this week fucking sucks Transgender staffers and their co-workers plan to stage a walkout next week protesting the streaming giant’s stance...
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