Netflix Won’t Take Down Dave Chappelle Special, Ted Sarandos Says
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Netflix Won’t Take Down Dave Chappelle Special, Ted Sarandos Says
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Re: Netflix Won’t Take Down Dave Chappelle Special, Ted Sarandos Says
#2Glad at least someone is standing up to Twitter mobs. The special is a statement against Twitter mobs, and how dangerous they can be for innocent individuals just expressing their opinions. Chappele’s trans friend most likely committed suicide because of intense Twitter bullying for defending Chappelle. We can’t keep letting Twitter mobs destroy people’s lives.
Re: Netflix Won’t Take Down Dave Chappelle Special, Ted Sarandos Says
#3The one part of his reasoning was great
It's really popular!
Re: Netflix Won’t Take Down Dave Chappelle Special, Ted Sarandos Says
#4Why would they? it's highly rated by users and heavily watched.
Re: Netflix Won’t Take Down Dave Chappelle Special, Ted Sarandos Says
#5What does "stickiest" mean in the context of that press release?
Re: Netflix Won’t Take Down Dave Chappelle Special, Ted Sarandos Says
#6The Closer has a 97% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, indicating universal acclaim among real people (not Twitter activists and "critics").
Twitter remains in the status of "not real life".
The screeching of rabid activists on Twitter who can't take a joke without being deeply offended is irrelevant to public discourse. Everyone knows they're ridiculous and dangerous (censoring comedy strips away the most important human rights).
Nobody has a right to not be offended.
Re: Netflix Won’t Take Down Dave Chappelle Special, Ted Sarandos Says
#7They shouldn't take it down. But it's bad. It's his worst work; the kind of thing you toss off to fulfill a contract obligation. Every bit in it is predictable, mostly because it's almost all rehashed from previous specials. Kevin Hart's bid to host the Oscars? Why not work a Lorena Bobbitt joke in there while you're at it?
He refers to himself as the GOAT in this special, but Bill Burr does this stuff 1000x better than 2021 Chappelle does.
Re: Netflix Won’t Take Down Dave Chappelle Special, Ted Sarandos Says
#8Glad at least someone is standing up to Twitter mobs. The special is a statement against Twitter mobs, and how dangerous they can be for innocent individuals just expressing their opinions. Chappele’s trans friend most likely committed suicide because of intense Twitter bullying for defending Chappelle. We can’t keep letting Twitter mobs destroy people’s lives.
> Chappele’s trans friend most likely committed suicide because of intense Twitter bullying for defending Chappelle.
*Citation needed
Re: Netflix Won’t Take Down Dave Chappelle Special, Ted Sarandos Says
#9The Closer has a 97% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, indicating universal acclaim among real people (not Twitter activists and "critics"). Twitter remains in the status of "not real life". The screeching of rabid activists on Twitter who can't take a joke without being deeply offended is irrelevant to public discourse. Everyone knows they're ridiculous and dangerous (censoring comedy strips away the most important…
Trends on Twitter can be faked and knowing how much of early social media growth relied on literally faking engagement, I treat it all as suspect.
Re: Netflix Won’t Take Down Dave Chappelle Special, Ted Sarandos Says
#10Good, but Netflix needs to extend the same “creative freedom” more broadly than just stand up comedy. Neither JK Rowling nor Dave Chapelle nor anyone else should be cancelled for expressing an opinion on a controversial topic that is ultimately based on social consensus and has lots of room for interpretation and differences of opinion. But other content should also be similarly unmoderated and reflect a diversity of perspectives, even if vocal Twitter mobs revolt. The fact that “incitement of hate” is applied differently based on the genre of entertainment shows how unprincipled and arbitrary the concept is.