Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticOn Wednesday, five Republican Senators fired off a letter to Netflix’s Ted Sarandos over the streamer service’s plan to have the executive producers of Game of Thrones adapt Chinese author Liu Cixin’s sci-fi trilogy The Three-Body Problem.
Tonight, Netflix’s VP of Global Public Policy fired back, nicely but firmly.Accused of “normalizing” the Chinese government’s brutal incarceration of more than 1 million Uyghur Muslims by making a series of Liu’s award-winning books, Dean Garfield politely reminded the legislators that “Netflix does not operate a service in China.” In a Q&A format to cut to the chase, the executive made it very clear that just because the author of The Three-Body Problem.
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