Netflix has fired an worker, alleging they shared confidential, commercially delicate details about Dave Chappelle’s new standup particular, The Closer, with media shops, Variety reported. 

The worker is accused of leaking information that appeared in Bloomberg about how a lot Netflix paid for a handful of exhibits and standup specials, together with The Closer and former Chappelle contracts. According to Bloomberg, Netflix spent $24.1 million on The Closer, in contrast with $23.6 million for his 2019 present, and simply $3.9 million for Bo Burnham’s Emmy-winning particular Inside. Squid Game, the biggest series debut in Netflix history, price the corporate $21.4 million, the report stated.

“We perceive this worker could have been motivated by disappointment and damage with Netflix, however sustaining a tradition of belief and transparency is core to our firm,” the corporate stated in a press release to Variety.

Netflix workers and exterior equality teams — together with GLADD and the National Black Justice Coalition — have known as for The Closer to be faraway from the streaming service, arguing it accommodates hateful transphobic and homophobic rhetoric. In the particular, Chappelle doubles down on his previous transphobic comments and defends the bigotry of anti-trans feminist JK Rowling. As of now, the particular remains to be accessible on Netflix.

“With 2021 on track to be the deadliest year on record for transgender people in the United States — the majority of whom are Black transgender people — Netflix should know better,” David Johns, govt director of the NBJC, stated to CNN. “Perpetuating transphobia perpetuates violence. Netflix should immediately pull The Closer from its platform and directly apologize to the transgender community.”

Netflix executives have stated little publicly in regards to the controversy, although CEO Ted Sarandos reportedly stated in an inner memo that The Closer was too popular to remove.

The fired worker was a frontrunner of the corporate’s inner trans useful resource group, and was serving to to arrange a walkout in protest of Netflix’s dealing with of the Chappelle particular, The Verge reported. The walkout is deliberate for October twentieth. The former worker is Black and pregnant, and really spoke out towards leaks with colleagues, arguing that they might damage the walkout, in accordance with The Verge.

Earlier this month, Netflix suspended a trans software engineer who tweeted her disapproval of the Chappelle particular. The worker was reinstated a day later and Netflix stated the suspension was attributable to an unrelated matter.