Great newsletter Sonny, thanks....and BRAVO for Netflix, if more corporations...companies media places etc would only stand up to their employees behaving badly...things would get a lot better
Had not heard the update on Netflix. I called to congratulate them for standing with Dave Chappelle when that mishegosh first went down, so I'm happy to see they're all in on artistic freedoms. Might be the only freedoms left in this country soon! And thanks for mentioning the great Fred Ward... and yes, let us all pray for our boy Ezra. I really want him to be okay. He sparkles on camera.
Thank God Netflix stood up for artistic free speech. We’ve all worked on stuff we disagreed with. When I applied for a job as a closed captioner, I was asked if I was ok working on shows that used bad language or had violence and sex in them. I said yes because, you know, how bad could it be? Pretty bad as it turns out. But I never refused to work on my assignment. That’s what you signed up for!
It seems that Americans are forgetting what the First Amendment is meant to do - protect the speech of those we find most odious.
I know it doesn't apply to Netflix, but we have to be mindful of what happens when we shut down people we disagree with who otherwise are doing no harm. We erode the ability to listen, and to tolerate and keep our respect for others with differing viewpoints.
In all, stop picking on Netflix. They've been pretty brave in giving us a big variety of entertainment, and we have the choice to not watch whatever we don't like.
As an explanation of free speech this is 1st rate.
PS: I kinda like subversive even when I don't agree with the topic...the rebel in me I guess...lol
Great newsletter Sonny, thanks....and BRAVO for Netflix, if more corporations...companies media places etc would only stand up to their employees behaving badly...things would get a lot better
Had not heard the update on Netflix. I called to congratulate them for standing with Dave Chappelle when that mishegosh first went down, so I'm happy to see they're all in on artistic freedoms. Might be the only freedoms left in this country soon! And thanks for mentioning the great Fred Ward... and yes, let us all pray for our boy Ezra. I really want him to be okay. He sparkles on camera.
Thank God Netflix stood up for artistic free speech. We’ve all worked on stuff we disagreed with. When I applied for a job as a closed captioner, I was asked if I was ok working on shows that used bad language or had violence and sex in them. I said yes because, you know, how bad could it be? Pretty bad as it turns out. But I never refused to work on my assignment. That’s what you signed up for!
Aw man, Fred Ward was a great! Remo Williams, the Player, and probably the best cthulu movie Cast a Deadly Spell.
It seems that Americans are forgetting what the First Amendment is meant to do - protect the speech of those we find most odious.
I know it doesn't apply to Netflix, but we have to be mindful of what happens when we shut down people we disagree with who otherwise are doing no harm. We erode the ability to listen, and to tolerate and keep our respect for others with differing viewpoints.
In all, stop picking on Netflix. They've been pretty brave in giving us a big variety of entertainment, and we have the choice to not watch whatever we don't like.
your key phrase there is, "Who otherwise are doing no harm." 👍🏽