Netflix employee fired in wake of Chappelle special furor

LOS ANGELES – Netflix said Friday that it had fired an worker for disclosing confidential fiscal accusation astir what it paid for Dave Chappelle’s drama peculiar “The Closer," which immoderate condemned arsenic being transphobic.

The employee, who wasn't named, shared “confidential, commercially delicate accusation extracurricular the company," a Netflix connection said.

“We recognize this worker whitethorn person been motivated by disappointment and wounded with Netflix, but maintaining a civilization of spot and transparency is halfway to our company,” the connection said.

The connection said the accusation was referenced successful a Bloomberg quality article, which reported that Netflix spent $24.1 cardinal connected “The Closer,” which archetypal aired past week. The nonfiction besides mentioned the little budgets for a 2109 Chapelle special, a Bo Burnham peculiar and the nine-episode deed “Squid Game.”

Netflix said a reappraisal of its interior entree logs pinpointed the accusation to a azygous person, who “admitted that they downloaded and shared delicate institution accusation externally.”

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“The Closer," archetypal aired connected Oct. 1 and had gained astatine slightest 10 cardinal views. However, Chapelle's remarks astir the transgender assemblage raised protests wrong Netflix and from LGBTQ activists.

The media watchdog radical GLAAD said that “anti-LGBTQ content” violates Netflix’s argumentation to cull programs that incite hatred oregon violence.

However, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos told managers successful an interior memo that the amusement doesn't transverse “the enactment connected hate" and volition stay connected the streaming service.

Several Netflix employees, including a bundle technologist who identifies arsenic transgender, had criticized the special. Transgender employees and their co-workers are being urged to signifier a walkout adjacent Wednesday successful protest.

“Our enactment has shown america that they bash not uphold the values for which we are held,” said a Monday station connected a nationalist institution Slack channel, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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