Streaming giant Netflix confirmed it was firing a further 150 employees in response to slowing revenue growth and a massive loss of subscribers.
“As we explained on earnings, our slowing revenue growth means we are also having to slow our cost growth as a company,” a Netflix representative told CNBC.
“So sadly, we are letting around 150 employees go today, mostly US-based. These changes are primarily driven by business needs rather than individual performance, which makes them especially tough as none of us want to say goodbye to such great colleagues. We’re working hard to support them through this very difficult transition.”
The new round of dismissals comes after Netflix fired an entire team of writers for the Tudum website, almost all of whom were “women of color.”
Netflix has lost over 200,000 subscribers this year and is set to hemorrhage another 2 million by the end of the year, while its share price has plummeted by 70 per cent since January.
Price hikes, the end of lockdown and increasing competition has badly impacted the company.
In addition to a worsening economic picture, Netflix has been plagued by its takeover by the woke mob, who relentlessly protested Dave Chapelle’s comedy special.
The decision to platform the 2020 movie Cuties, which sexualized underage girls, also had a negative impact on the company’s reputation.
Last month, Elon Musk asserted that Netflix embracing “the woke mind virus”‘ is making it “unwatchable”.
The tech giant wasted a whopping $75 million on signing up Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to make more preachy, woke content that no one will watch.
If things continue in the same vain, it might not be long before Netflix goes the same way as CNN+.
A TikTok ‘prankster’ who filmed himself committing crimes for clout is being exploited by censorship advocates to call for the passing of anti-free speech legislation.
Watch: Musk Warns Bill Maher ‘Woke Mind Virus’ Is Existential Threat To Civilization
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“I, at least, think of myself as a moderate,” Elon Musk told Bill Maher during an appearance Friday night on the comedian’s HBO show.
Despite being decried by all asunder as a ‘far-right conservative operative’ or some such hyperbole, Musk said:
“I spent a massive amount of my life energy building sustainable energy, you know, electric vehicles, and batteries, and solar. It’s not exactly far-right.”
Musk made his opinion clear a year ago – he hasn’t changed, the world has…
And somehow in all this divisive bullshit, ‘allowing’ free speech has become a virtue of the far-right, the enablers of violence, the fascists
“Free speech used to be a left or liberal value, and yet we see from the quote ‘left’ a desire to actually censor, and that seems crazy.”
“I think we should be extremely concerned about anything that undermines the First Amendment,” Musk said.
More explicitly regarding his acquisition or, and changes made at, Twitter, Musk said:
“My concern with Twitter was to that it is somewhat of the digital town square and it’s important that there be both the reality and perception of trust for a wide range of viewpoints.“
Maher responded that he does not tweet any more because “it’s too easy to get canceled” by a mob.
“Because you may be the mayor of tweet town now and I’m glad – I like it that the mayor likes my jokes – but the reason I don’t do it anymore is because the mob of mean girls is still there and that has not changed.
Like, it’s too easy to get canceled and I don’t even know what pisses them off: they’re so nuts, these kids.
I feel like I’m walking on a roof with a blind fold: I could fall off anytime, that was the most innocuous thing, but it’s like, you know, I said George Washington was a great president – oh how dare you,” Maher continued.
“You have to say, like, what does canceled mean? You know – I mean, yes, if people attack you on Twitter that’s one thing – but frankly that’s just going to increase engagement. So I would just ignore it,” Musk replied somewhat prosaically.
And so Maher stepped it up a little more:
“You have talked about this woke mind virus in really apocalyptic terms,” Maher asked Musk
“I don’t – you should explain why you don’t think it’s hyperbole to say things like it’s pushing civilization towards suicide. First of all, what is the woke mind virus?”
Musk responded much more clearly this time:
“I think we need to be very cautious about anything that is anti-meritocratic and anything that results in the suppression of free speech,” Musk said.
“So, those are two of the aspects of the woke mind virus that I think are very dangerous, is that it’s often very anti-meritocratic, and you can’t question things. Even the questioning is bad.”
Maher agreed, and asked Musk where he thinks this ‘woke mind virus’ originated from:
“I was trying to figure out where it’s coming from. I think it’s actually been a long time brewing, in that it’s – I think it’s been going on for a while, and the amount of indoctrination that’s happening in schools and universities is I think far beyond what parents realize,” Musk said.