Netflix Lassoed Into Texas GOP Race As Senate Hopeful Sues Streamer; State AG Alleges “Bait & Switch” Harvesting Of Kids’ Data

MAGA sure love some Netflix, at least when it comes to kickin’ the streamer’s butt around for political gain.

With 15 days to go before what looks to be a tight GOP primary vote on who will carry the Republican banner into the fall against Democrat James Talarico for a potentially hotly contested Senate seat, Texas state Attorney General Ken Paxton today threw raw red meat to the base with a scorcher of a lawsuit against Netflix.

“Netflix’s endgame is simple and lucrative: get children and families glued to the screen, harvest their data while they are stuck there, and then monetize the data for a handsome profit,” the potentially multi-million suit says. “Netflix quietly built a behavioral-surveillance program of staggering scale. At bottom, this program requires getting Texans and their children glued to the screen and then extracting every possible piece of data about them while they are there,” the jury trial seeking injunction petition filed today in court in the second largest state in the union goes on to say.

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