Valuetainment - May 16, 2026


＂Netflix Is A BAD Actor＂ - Ken Paxton EXPOSES Netflix's SECRET Child Spying Program


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7 minutes

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Word count

1,175

Sentence count

55

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Misogyny

1

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Hate speech

4

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Texas AG backs a lawsuit against Netflix for allegedly spying on its customers and targeting children in order to make sure they are watching what their parents are watching. In this episode, Attorney General Ken Paxton talks about why he thinks Netflix is a bad actor and why they should be held accountable.

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00:00:00.000 Story comes out with you talking about how Netflix is not, we're not just watching Netflix, but Netflix is watching us.
00:00:10.960 And specifically, watching what's happening with kids and taking that content and retargeting kids.
00:00:18.440 So, maybe unpack to the audience why you decided to sue Netflix.
00:00:22.540 Look, one of the things that we worry about in Texas is privacy and taking consumer data and information, tracking them.
00:00:30.600 I've sued Google. I've sued Facebook. I've sued General Motors. I've sued a lot of companies.
00:00:34.900 I've sued seven Chinese companies because they take our data without disclosing it to the consumer. 0.98
00:00:40.780 And then they sell it, they monetize it, and then they try to manipulate our behavior, including, in this case, Netflix, children. 0.98
00:00:47.900 and they provide inappropriate content
00:00:50.500 and they manipulate our children
00:00:52.400 and try to get them to watch things
00:00:53.720 that may be inappropriate.
00:00:55.400 And they're not telling the consumer,
00:00:57.980 here's what we're doing to you.
00:00:58.900 As a matter of fact, they're denying it.
00:01:00.920 And the reality is in Texas, you can't do that.
00:01:03.240 We're going to hold you accountable.
00:01:04.240 I don't care who you are.
00:01:05.800 So the things that I see here about the lawsuit
00:01:09.740 is one is collecting data.
00:01:13.300 Two is allegations of selling data to ad tech companies.
00:01:17.280 Three is lawsuit targeting dark partners and autoplay.
00:01:22.220 And then Netflix obviously denies the allegation.
00:01:24.920 And what you're asking for, what Texas is asking for, is civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation
00:01:30.960 and wants Netflix ordered to stop unlawfully collecting and disclosing data.
00:01:35.980 And saying the fact that Netflix has built a surveillance program designed to illegally collect and profit from the Texas personal data without consent.
00:01:45.060 So when you say dark patterns, lawsuit targets dark patterns and autoplay, what do you mean by dark patterns with Netflix?
00:01:53.640 So they are, as we said in the lawsuit, collecting this data about children, and then they are selling that information, and then they use that information to manipulate children, not just with Netflix, but with other companies that potentially target these children in inappropriate ways.
00:02:13.360 And for instance, with Netflix, there are certain shows on there about transgenderism and about manipulating their thoughts on LGBTQ issues.
00:02:23.180 They definitely have an agenda.
00:02:24.660 It's a liberal agenda.
00:02:25.800 It's designed to affect how children think about some of these social issues and affect them in ways that maybe their parents don't even know.
00:02:33.940 So, but what can you do?
00:02:35.860 What can you legally make them stop doing?
00:02:38.620 Because it's not just Netflix.
00:02:39.860 It's also Disney, and Disney was doing this under, I think it was Kathleen Kennedy,
00:02:45.120 who just resigned four and a half months ago, five months ago, as of January 1st of this year,
00:02:49.020 and then we saw Bob Iger stepping down, and there's a new guy that's taking over at Disney.
00:02:54.460 You know, what can you legally, as an AG from Texas, cause a Netflix or a Disney to change
00:03:02.600 with the movies that they're making targeting our kids?
00:03:05.720 So we have a very powerful tool.
00:03:07.580 It's related to consumers, and it's a deceptive trait practice.
00:03:11.600 And so if we can make the argument that they are deceiving customers by not disclosing what they're actually selling.
00:03:19.780 In this case, they're not disclosing that they're taking your information.
00:03:23.800 They're not paying you for it.
00:03:25.040 They're not letting you know what it is, and it is affecting you.
00:03:27.560 And they're keeping track of, we believe, everything you watch, what you search for,
00:03:32.720 so that they know how to target you, and they know how to target your children.
00:03:35.820 and they're not disclosing that in texas we have helped of course every company says they're not
00:03:41.240 doing it we sell them which is shocking but we've won a lot of lawsuits against some very big
00:03:45.760 companies like google and facebook and others where they ultimately settle with us or we sell
00:03:51.480 them so there's no doubt in our minds that netflix is a bad actor in this case and they should be
00:03:57.180 one held accountable and people should know what they're what they're signing up for when they
00:04:01.160 sign it for Netflix and then we're going to try to get them to stop doing it and then there's a
00:04:06.140 penalty if there's no penalty for doing this and they have no incentive not to do there's two
00:04:10.180 different issues here right one of them is retargeting and surveillancing which I get that
00:04:15.840 part clear go for it it's a clear argument but the other part is the content that they're making
00:04:22.040 you know I'll take my kids to a Disney movie I cannot tell you how many times we just walk out
00:04:26.740 seven minutes out we go to a movie stranger things some things and kids are like hey dad I don't want
00:04:31.100 watch this movie we step out and we leave right so can you do anything for them to stop making
00:04:38.100 these movies that they're making targeting kids with lgbtq and like i had a dominic tarjinsky on
00:04:43.900 the other day from poland and he says when it comes down to poland you can't even teach sex
00:04:48.700 education in high school to kids that's parents responsibility and that's adult content that's not
00:04:55.160 something you do underage but in america we teach health and guidance and a lot of teachers want to
00:04:59.480 go out there and teach sex in their own way and hey boy to boy girl to girl confuse the hell out
00:05:04.000 of the kids what jurisdiction is there that a disney or a netflix specifically cannot make 0.95
00:05:09.780 cartoons by having transgender characters in there and having to constantly feed characters
00:05:15.040 that are part of the lgbtq community so in our case we're arguing that it is a deceptive trade 0.90
00:05:20.400 practice to market yourself as kid friendly and safe but then provide content that a lot of
00:05:28.640 Maybe most parents would consider unsafe. So that's our argument that they are marketing. They're not disclosing. They're not being up front with parents about what the children are actually seeing. So in that case, we have held people accountable. We've held companies accountable for marketing without telling parents what they're actually getting.
00:05:47.620 Yeah, I can see the $10,000 per fine, you know, that having something that happens with it.
00:05:55.000 But I wonder what control there will be for them to not create content for kids and target them the way that they are.
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