{"id":1475965,"date":"2022-05-15T15:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T19:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1475965"},"modified":"2022-05-15T15:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T19:44:48","slug":"elon-musk-other-top-figures-praise-netflix-for-cracking-down-on-woke-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-other-top-figures-praise-netflix-for-cracking-down-on-woke-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk, Other Top Figures Praise Netflix For Cracking Down On Woke Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-other-top-figures-praise-netflix-for-cracking-down-on-woke-employees%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1475965&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/MC-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"e1nzmkc90 css-1s0j25g\">\n<p>Elon Musk and other top figures praised Netflix\u2019s new corporate culture memo that effectively tells woke employees that the company will not censor content and that if they have a problem with something that the company is producing that they are free to go work somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Variety\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/digital\/news\/netflix-culture-memo-update-censorship-spending-1235264904\/\">reported<\/a> late last week that the change in Netflix\u2019s company culture appears to be in large part due to the backlash the streaming service faced from woke employees last year over its Dave Chappelle special, which the employees claimed was transphobic.<\/p>\n<p>The updated Netflix Culture memo includes a new section called \u201cArtistic Expression\u201d that states that it will not \u201ccensor specific artists or voices\u201d even if employees consider the content to be \u201charmful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019d find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you,\u201d the memo states, later adding that employees may be required to work on projects that they \u201cperceive to be harmful\u201d and that if they have a hard time accepting their work assignment, they might want to consider working somewhere else because the company is not going to bend to pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded to the news on Sunday, writing on Twitter: \u201cGood move by @netflix.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe currents are changing,\u201d businessman Vivek Ramaswamy said. \u201cNetflix says it stands for artistic expression and that employees who don\u2019t want to work on content they find offensive can work somewhere else. And they reportedly fired the employee who led the trans \u2018walkout protest\u2019 earlier this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robert J. O\u2019Neill, the U.S. Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden, wrote: \u201cTurns out the blue-haired screamers are wrong and capitalism is right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other notable responses included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Christopher F. Rufo<\/strong>, writer: \u201cWe should call this \u2018The Disney Effect.&#8217;\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rita Panahi<\/strong>, political commentator: \u201cDeSantis standing up to Disney (&#038; the media\u2019s) lies about Florida\u2019s parental rights bill is having all sorts of positive consequences.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Piers Morgan<\/strong>, political commentator: \u201cFinally\u2026 better late than never @netflix.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Sacks<\/strong>, venture capitalist: \u201cNetflix gets real.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ayaan Hirsi Ali<\/strong>, human rights activist: \u201cCommon sense is coming back at Netflix.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nick V. Flor<\/strong>, professor: \u201cGo Woke, Go Broke.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/unnW048vX5\">https:\/\/t.co\/unnW048vX5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1525123390285221893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The new section later added that the company supports\u00a0\u201cthe artistic expression of the creators we choose to work with\u201d and that \u201cwe let viewers decide what\u2019s appropriate for them, versus having Netflix censor specific artists or voices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>RELATED:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/norm-macdonald-shot-secret-comedy-special-to-be-released-after-he-died-its-about-to-come-out\">Norm Macdonald Shot Secret Comedy Special To Be Released After He Died. It\u2019s About To Come Out.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk and other top figures praised Netflix\u2019s new corporate culture memo that effectively tells woke employees that the company will not censor content and that if they have a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1483089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}