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It sounded like some of the people on the board thought they were going to have more control. And didn’t the Governor say something about the board being a “moral arbiter”? Moral arbiter of what, infrastructure?
I found a more complete quote. It's pretty clear what he meant. He's talking about regulating the company's business outside of Florida.
Though the board is tasked with overseeing duties such as sewage treatment and road maintenance at Disney’s properties, DeSantis suggested Monday that he is also expecting it to act as a sort of moral arbiter for the company he has described as a “woke Burbank corporation” that is “trying to inject woke ideology” on children.
“When you lose your way, you’ve got to have people that are going to tell you the truth,” DeSantis said. “So we hope they can get back on. But I think all of these board members very much would like to see the type of entertainment that all families can appreciate.”
The board doesn’t have direct power over the creative content Disney produces, such as movies and characters and rides. But because the new appointees hold purse strings over infrastructure projects, they could influence Disney’s decisions.
If I could give some corollaries related to Florida theme parks, it would be similar to Comcast worrying about whether or not regulation of Universal Orlando would be contingent on concessions made about content allowed on MSNBC. Or back when Sea World was owned by Anheuser-Busch, that regulation would be contingent on reduction of the sales of malt liquor. DeSantis certainly sounded like he was talking about controlling Disney's entertainment content that he didn't like.