Netflix Reportedly Tells Staff To Quit If They Are Offended By Content
Netflix seemingly tells its employees to quit if they are offended by content. Founded in 1997, Netflix has transformed from a simple mail-order DVD service to the premiere standard of streaming, as the company revolutionized the industry. Many others have raced to catch up with it as Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock, Paramount+, and more have been created to take a part of the streaming pie.
The streaming juggernaut has been all over the news for the past month, but not for good reasons. Netflix saw its first decrease in subscribers in ten years, and the cascade of press from that forced them to cut back and cancel a large number of programs. Netflix blamed it on password sharing, which it intends to crack down on, but after a series of massively over budget misfires like the $200 million season of Jupiter's Legacy, which was canceled after one season, or the massive output of one original film per week, Netflix has been building debt for years. Now, more bad news is coming for the streaming service, this time for its employees.
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According to Variety, the company has released an internal memo informing its employees if they do not like the material Netflix produces, it may not be the best working environment for them, implying the employee should quit. This new memo includes a new section called “Artistic Expression,” which declares the streamer will not “censor specific artists or voices.” It ends by saying employees' personal values of what they individual deem harmful will not be taken into consideration. While Netflix maintains that it won’t censor content on the platform, the company does comply with government censorship laws around the world from countries the
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