“Fascism is good for business,” Maron told Pod Save America host Jon Lovett. “Like, Netflix will just co-opt anybody that can tick that algorithm. I used to do a joke about it, that Netflix can become ‘Reich-flix’ very quickly.

Marc Maron slammed fellow comedians Dave Chappelle and Bill Maher for their politics, critiquing Netflix for siding with the former amid backlash against his jokes about the trans community and the latter for his “desperate chasing of relevance.

Netflix did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Shortly after the controversy in 2021, Sarandos said that Netflix tries to “support creative freedom and artistic expression” and that he would classify hate speech as “something that would intentionally call for physically harming other people or even remove protections.”