Posted on 03/29/2022 5:04:23 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), already under fire from all sides for his bellicose statements on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, has now risked angering conservative voters across the country by backing a bill that would give legal sanction to collusion between Big Media and Big Tech, empowering corporate media giants like CNN and the New York Times at the expense of independent creators.
The bill, called the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), does the opposite of what it promises: it protects discredited media companies from competition by allowing them to form a legal cartel to collectively bargain with Silicon Valley.
If the bill passes, big media companies would be able to strike deals with Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other tech giants that would prioritize their content to the detriment of podcasters, YouTubers, Substack authors, and other forms of independent media.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Now, he wants to Destroy the Country
Welfare for the Wagon Makers
This effing guy. Spit.
Figures he’s against the alternative media, our only link to the truth.
He’s probably got a few photos on Hunter’s laptop. He’s spent some time in Ukraine with McCain, so somebody has something on that SOB.
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Sean Hannity and Geraldo support him, as always
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We need a Repuke Senate!! Why, exactly?
It’s time the Queen steps down.
2026. He’s free you chumps. The problem is SC. Scott’s not much better but he’s entitled to a 2nd term.
Corporate media doesn’t need ANY sort of BAILOUT.
I can’t read the article, I’m too disgusted at the headline. Does the body of it suggest something different? Someone who has clicked on the link and read this, please enlighten me.
Maybe he was in on the orgies and cocaine that Cawthorn mentioned.
Hey, careful with that queen thing. Lindsey is a self proclaimed SWM - Single White Male
Linda against deplorables again?
Whoda thunk it....
Is praying for a crippling cyber attack that renders social media useless for eternity wrong?
A system like this exists in Australia with old guard media companies able to collect money from Facebook, Twitter etc. for use of their material by social media posters.
Lost all respect for this cupcake when he mewled for trumps endorsement prior to the last election.
Insanity. They really have a lot of gull to introduce this when trust in the media is at an all time low. So now they want to force it on us.
What do we all think politics-government is really about?
It is not Right verus Left or Right verus Wrong it’s a collusion of Big Business and Big Government.
Its the Worlds Second Oldest Profession that bears a close resemblance to the first as Ronald Reagan put it.
The Conservative Media gets us all whooped up about the Democrats being so bad to distract us from the pants down operation that really goes on behind the scenes.
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