Gaetz turned the heat up on former House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., throughout the committee’s Tuesday hearing on government access to Americans’ personal data.
Goodlatte, who retired in 2018, was questioned by Gaetz regarding his work with Disney and what the Mouse House is doing to prevent children’s data from being sold.
Gaetz announced he was concerned regarding "private entities" attempting to "program" people and "make them think a certain way" by harmfully using people’s data.
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"Like particularly with the Walt Disney corporation that it is in business with the Chinese Communist Party," Gaetz announced, pointing to Disney thanking the Chinese government for enabling them to film on the location where a literal genocide is taking place.
"Does it concern that the Walt Disney corporation sells children's information?" Gaetz questioned.
"I don’t know if that’s the fact," Goodlatte replied, with Gaetz questioning if he was being "purposefully ignorant" while testifying against the practices Gaetz accused the Mouse House of using.
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Goodlatte said he did not know regarding the accusations Gaetz leveled and that he couldn’t comment on them.
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Gaetz continued to bring up a conversation that the pair had as members in the Capitol Hill Club, DC’s prime, a private hang-out spot for Republican lawmakers.
"Chairman Goodlatte, do you remember a conversation you and I had when you led this committee at the Capitol Hill Club where you said, ‘The best way to be successful in the Judiciary Committee is to find interest groups that are opposed to one another and to tell both of them that you'll support their positions, so they'll both make donations?’" Gaetz questioned.
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Goodlatte explained he "definitely" did not "remember the conversation."
Gaetz ended the exchange by entering many articles into the congressional record he mentioned throughout the hearing, including a Los Angeles Times report on Disney using robots to harvest park-goers’ personal data.
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He argued that big businesses in Florida were shifting their Florida revenue to enjoy tax shelters in other states. It is sneaky, contrived...and totally legal," Gaetz announced regarding the amendment that Rodriguez proposed. "At the time Disney had a vise grip on the Republican majority. Disney was among the companies that most utilized this tax loophole to screw the people of Florida."
Gaetz said that Disney "sent an army of lobbyists to oppose the Rodriguez amendment," adding that he was "wrong to disagree with him at all."
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