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Netflix Fires Employee for Sharing Confidential Data About Dave Chappelle Stand-Up Special Outside the Company

posted 3 years ago by Satan2016 (25525)
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I heard about the walkout and look what Google found! About time companies got rid of unloyal workers with an agenda.

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/netflix-fires-employee-confidential-data-reporter-1235090416/

Netflix terminated an unidentified staffer who shared “commercially sensitive information” with someone outside the company that was included in a Bloomberg news report, violating the streamer’s policies.

The data included Netflix financial figures for Dave Chappelle’s “The Closer” stand-up special, which has stirred a major backlash both inside and outside the company over the comedian’s transphobic material.

“We have let go an employee for sharing confidential, commercially sensitive information outside the company,” a Netflix spokesperson said in a statement to Variety. “We understand this employee may have been motivated by disappointment and hurt with Netflix, but maintaining a culture of trust and transparency is core to our company.”

A source familiar with the situation told Variety that the confidential information was cited in a Bloomberg article about the Netflix employee protests about Chappelle’s special.

The firestorm over Chappelle’s transphobic and homophobic commentary in “The Closer” has grown more intense since Netflix released it on Oct. 5. Hundreds of company employees are planning to stage a walkout on Oct. 20 in protest of Sarandos’ comments defending the Chappelle special. That included his statement in an Oct. 11 memo that “we have a strong belief that content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm,” as first reported by Variety.

[–] Satan2016 (25525) 3 years ago

Good to see that Netflix staff is divided on Chappelle. The activists need to be told off.

https://deadline.com/2021/10/dave-chappelle-controversy-netflix-fires-staffer-leak-1234856589/

As Hollywood stands on the edge of a labor cliff with a October 18 strike deadline by IATSE, the claims of transphobic and hateful extended comments by Chappelle has seen GLAAD chime in, in addition to a heated internal debate at Netflix with a number of trans, non-trans staffers and even co-CEO Reed Hastings speaking their truth — for better or worse.

As well as former Dear White People co-showrunner Jaclyn Moore declaring that she was “done” with Netflix “as long as they continue to put out and profit from blatantly and dangerously transphobic content,” superstar Hannah Gadsby put out her own POV on the situation — and the Nanette performer didn’t leave Sarandos or anyone else any confusion about where she was coming from.

“You didn’t pay me nearly enough to deal with the real world consequences of the hate speech dog whistling you refuse to acknowledge, Ted,” wrote Gadsby on social media early this morning. “F**k you and your amoral algorithm cult… I do sh*ts with more back bone than you. That’s just a joke! I definitely didn’t cross a line because you just told the world there isn’t one.”

No word yet what Gadsby’s fate at Netflix is — yet.

[–] Satan2016 (25525) 3 years ago

Good to see Deadline doing honest reporting. Google shows most of Big Fake News attacking him.

https://deadline.com/2021/10/dave-chappelle-the-closer-defended-by-sisters-his-trans-friend-daphne-dorman-1234853511/

The family of a woman prominently mentioned by comedian Dave Chappelle in his new Netflix special, The Closer, has spoken out in his defense.

In the special, Chappelle spoke about his friendship with Daphne Dorman, a trans woman and a fellow comedian from the San Francisco area. She died by suicide in 2019.

In a text message to the Daily Beast, Dorman’s sister, Becky, wrote, “Daphne was in awe of Dave’s graciousness. She did not find his jokes rude, crude, off-coloring, off-putting, anything. She thought his jokes were funny. Daphne understood humor and comedy—she was not offended. Why would her family be offended?”

Dorman’s younger sister, Brandy, agreed and called Chappelle an “LGBTQ ally.”

In the special and in other comments, Chappelle has touched on some sore points with the trans community. He noted the cancellation of Harry Potter author JK Rowling as one particular injustice. Rowling has been labeled a “TERF” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) for her comments on gender.

“They canceled JK Rowling – my God,” he said in The Closer. “Effectually she said gender was fact, the trans community got mad as shit, they started calling her a Terf…I’m Team TERF.”

Chappelle added that “gender is a fact” and that “every human being in this room, every human being on Earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on Earth.”