I mean, they employ people who are clearly completely out of touch and don’t give a shit about anything but making money. They don’t care about controversy as long as people are just talking about it and not suing them or bringing legal charges against them.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/oct/29/dahmer-series-creator-ryan-murphy-victims-families-friends

Ryan Murphy apparently can’t figure out that since nobody wants to talk to him about this that maybe it was a bad idea to begin with. Pretty much all the families and friends of victims thought the whole thing was in incredibly poor taste. Apparently all of them rejecting being involved wasn’t enough to clue Ryan Murphy into this being incredibly offensive to them.

But Netflix doesn’t care about anything but money.

Like when they removed an episode Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj’s show in Saudi Arabia because they didn’t want to offend anyone.

Reed Hastings on that decision:

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/11/netflix-reed-hastings-saudi-arabia-patriot-act

“We’re not in the news business,” Hastings said at the New York Times’ DealBook conference, per Variety, of the decision to remove the episode after Saudi Arabia threatened legal action. “We’re not trying to do ‘truth to power.’ We’re trying to entertain…We don’t feel bad about that at all.”

Same reason they consulted with suicide prevention organizations on 13 Reasons Why: got told that this show would increase copycat suicides and it was written in a way that glorified suicide, but fuck it, who cares, let’s make some money and throw this up on Netflix!

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/05/05/526871398/facts-about-teens-suicide-and-13-reasons-why

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2019/release-of-13-reasons-why-associated-with-increase-in-youth-suicide-rates

Even when they’re told by everyone not to do it, Netflix does it because money matters more.