Posted on 06/15/2023 9:00:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) spoke with host Alex Marlow on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily about the latest on the Journalism Competition and Protection Act – a bill that would enable establishment and legacy media companies to form a cartel and collectively bargain with Silicon Valley tech giants while excluding conservative media companies.
Senate Democrats are looking to resurrect the zombie bill, which has been revived numerous times in recent years. Most recently, Democrats and their establishment Republican counterparts attempted to shoehorn the legislation into last year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Cotton, a staunch JCPA critic, told the Breitbart News editor-in-chief that while he “almost always support[s]” the annual NDAA, “I had to put my foot down and say that I would not just oppose, but I would filibuster the defense bill” adding, “They put in this extraneous and unwise legislation into it.”
“This bill is very worrisome to me,” Cotton said. “It addresses what’s a real problem, Alex. You have relatively small newspapers or news outlets that have their content taken by big tech companies and repackaged, they lose revenue from that, that hurts our communities. You know, we want the readers of the Russellville Currier or the Jonesboro Sun, or the Baxter Bulletin in Arkansas to be able to follow their local news and their local communities. Of course, in the media landscape today, though, it’s not just about local newspapers or TV stations, or radio stations. It’s news outlets like Breitbart that we want to make sure are not being taken advantage of either by these big tech companies. But I don’t think this bill is the solution for it, however, because what it does is create a giant antitrust exemption to create a kind of media cartel.”
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Surprised that cotton found a little spine
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Republicans co-sponsored this and some in the Republican Leadership are pushing it.
Minor blip in the story; it’s Russellville Courier, not currier
Surprised to know that Gomer Cotton has read a bill before voting on it.
Affordable Care Act
Willard did sign the BozoCare predecessor in Moronistan.
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