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My name is Seth Mosk.

My name is Seth Moskowitz and I'm an associate editor at Persuasion.

I recently wrote a piece for persuasion called Commercial Interests

Aren't Enough to Save Free Speech.

And the piece is all about what happened at Netflix

after the company released Dave Chappelle's new stand-up special called The Closer.

In the show Chappelle makes jokes about pretty much every identity group, including Jewish

people, black people, white people, and gay people, but activists were most

angry at his jokes about transgender people, to the point where some were actually calling

on Netflix to take the special down from their streaming service.

In response to those demands Netflix's co-cee.

Ted Sarandos sent out a memo that rejected these activists demands and that statement does highlight the company's

commitment to creative freedom but it also makes it clear that Netflix is

defending Dave Chappelle largely because of the financial interest that it has to do that.

Surandos wrote in the memo that Chappelle is, quote, one of the most popular stand-up

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