# Professor Paul Hardart explains how Netflix's swift response to enactment of Georgia's Heartbeat Bill impacted the entertainment industry

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Excerpt from [CNN Business](https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/media/netflix-ted-sarandos-abortion-risk-takers/) -- "'Ted Sarandos has done a great job of seeing things before they happen,' [Paul Hardart](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/paul-hardart), director of NYU's Entertainment, Media and Technology Program and a former film industry executive, said in an interview with CNN Business. 'He made a strong statement, and a lot of other studios followed,' Hardart added. 'It shows the power of Netflix to set the agenda for Hollywood in a way that other studios didn't in the past. I give him a lot of credit for having conviction.'"

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