Free speech or hate speech? Netflix at eye of LGBTQ storm | Malay Mail

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LOS ANGELES, Oct 17 — Netflix has been plunged into America’s culture wars by a Dave Chappelle comedy special that raises concerns about free speech and censorship but has been slammed by its own employees as transphobic. In The Closer, boundary-pushing mega-star Chappelle responds to critics...

LOS ANGELES, Oct 17 — Netflix has been plunged into America’s culture wars by a Dave Chappelle comedy special that raises concerns about free speech and censorship but has been slammed by its own employees as transphobic., boundary-pushing mega-star Chappelle responds to critics who have accused him of mocking transgender people in the past by asserting that “gender is a fact” and accusing LGBTQ people of being “too sensitive.

But the streaming giant finds itself trapped at the center of arguably its most intense controversy yet. “Netflix is no longer a little company that mails out DVDs, it’s a vast maker of content that last year spent something like US$17 billion,” said Stephen Galloway, film and media arts dean at California-based Chapman University.

Still, a group of Netflix employees plans to walk out this week over their bosses’ handling of the furore, while one worker was fired for leaking internal data about Chappelle’s high fee. That earned him an expletive-laden response from Gadsby on Instagram, who labelled Netflix an “amoral algorithm cult.”

“The special draws its energy from one of the hottest debates in popular culture, about competing claims to victimhood,” wrote Helen Lewis inauthor JK Rowling last year, when she asserted the reality of biological sex, which many deemed to be transphobic.

 

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