It isn't Netflix to techies, it's Netflix to a vocal minority of employees who feel their values on whats fit to air should trump all others, even public demand

It isn't Netflix to techies, it's Netflix to a vocal minority of employees who feel their values on whats fit to air should trump all others, even public demand. As evidenced by the ton of people who watched Dave Chapelle's special. The culture of openness was about feedback germane to the engineering process. Example: "a software engineer, wrote a memo shortly after he started about improvements the engineering organization needed to make in how it tested the Netflix app. The engineer didn’t hold back, openly calling out dysfunction and identifying unnecessary obstacles to the process. “My manager was really happy,” he recalls. “She said, ‘This is the kind of context we are looking for people to bring up.’ ”" Theres a big difference between engineers being encouraged to point out flaws in the engineering org and those who want to police content. If an engineer is qualified to decide what content airs, then so is everyone else, including every employee at Netflix, or Netflix's user base.