You don't have to be an expert in public choice theory to understand that when the government owns companies that directly benefit from economic distortions, the incentives to remove those distortions are pretty low. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
I don't know what Reed Hastings said, but I do know a little bit about public choice theory and elections. (redefinedonline.org)
I assume as per public choice theory that they will simply lobby governments to avoid having such taxes introduced. (johnquiggin.com)