Netflix pushes back

[schmittel]

Netflix has had a few brushes with cancel culture, and employees complaining about the content - eg the Dave Chapelle protests last year, after he made a joke about some LGBT people being to sensitive. The employees staged a walkout since the CEOs initial response was like "'laughing in the face of our pain" because he said "content on screen doesn't directly translate to real-world harm", and emphasised the importance of defending "artistic freedom".

Predictably enough there was uproar at these remarks, and the CEO was forced into an apology to the staff:

"I should have first and foremost acknowledged in those emails that a group of our employees were in pain, and they were really feeling hurt from a business decision that we made."

So far so very predictable.

What's interesting is now, 6 months later, to avoid any doubt of Netflix's positions on such matter they have updated their official corporate culture document, and presumably trying to head off situations like this in advance, they have included this gem:

The updated Netflix Culture memo also includes a new section called “Artistic Expression,” explaining that the streamer will not “censor specific artists or voices” even if employees consider the content “harmful,” and bluntly states, “If you’d find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you.”

Are we seeing a return to common sense at last?

[knownunknown]

There does seem to be a bit of a pushback against this nonsense about gender and sex stuff, a distinction only ever made by French philosophers who were up their own asses, who believed there was no such thing as objective truths.

Sex describes people and gender describes words, or at least that’s the way initially that language evolved around the matter. We have convoluted it to the point where people think gender is something personal to eve…login to view the rest of this post