WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined a letter led by Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to Ted Sarandos, the Chief Content Officer of Netflix, expressing concern after the streaming platform decided to adapt and promote “The Three-Body Problem” by Liu Cixin as a live-action series on the network. Liu has propagated genocidal rhetoric regarding the Muslim Uyghurs, and has openly supported the religious minorities internment at “re-education” camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
“While Congress seriously considers the systemic crimes carried out against the Uyghurs, we have significant concerns with Netflix’s decision to do business with an individual who is parroting dangerous CCP propaganda,”wrote the Senators. “In the face of such atrocities in XUAR, there no longer exist corporate decisions of complacency, only complicity.”
Earlier this year, Senator Cramer joined over seventy members of the Senate and the House in urging Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to issue a formal determination of the atrocity crimes, including crimes against humanity and genocide against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim ethnic minorities.
Senators Cramer and Blackburn are joined on this letter by Senators Rick Scott (R-FL), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Martha McSally (R-AZ).