Democrats Exposed: Klobuchar Delays Media Cartel Bill After Cruz Amendment Prohibiting Censorship Collusion

Breitbart ^ | 8 Sep 2022 | ALLUM BOKHARI

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After nearly two years of lobbying by representatives of the nation’s largest, wealthiest, and most pro-censorship media companies, after being killed in the House and then revived in the Senate, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is (temporarily) dead again — killed by its champion, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), because Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) successfully added an amendment that would prevent media companies and tech companies from colluding on content moderation.

The core concept of the JCPA is allowing media companies to form a legal cartel in the U.S., for the sole purpose of negotiating with tech giants for special favors.

Sen. Cruz’s amendment, which passed by a narrow 11-10 vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee, limits the scope of those negotiations: the media cartel would be allowed to negotiate with Big Tech on fair payments for their content, but on nothing else — including content moderation.

In his remarks, Sen. Cruz made it clear that the purpose of his amendment was to prevent big media companies from negotiating the suppression of their competitors with tech giants like Facebook and Google.

“What this amendment would do, is it would say [that] when the cartel sits down to negotiation, it would say ‘we’re not going to discuss censorship, we’re going to discuss price,'” said Cruz.

Sen. Klobuchar’s response was to pull the bill from proceedings rather than pass it out of committee with the Cruz amendment. In doing so, she effectively revealed that enabling collusion between Big Media and Big Tech on censorship has always been a core Democrat aim behind the JCPA.

Sen. Cruz successfully won over his colleagues on his amendment. In tense exchanges at this morning’s markup hearing on the bill, a somewhat panicked-sounding Sen. Klobuchar attempted to persuade the lead Republican co-sponsor of the bill, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA),

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Sen. Cruz’s attempt to limit negotiations just to payment exposed the true aims of the Democrats: not saving independent journalism, but crushing it — with censorship, censorship, and more censorship.

[SubMareener]

So they think calling this the JCPA is a good idea?

[dila813]

God bless them

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[traderrob6]

Many on this forum despise Ted Cruz but the guy does a fair amount of good and much of it under the radar.

[joshua c]

we can kneecap big media

cut your cable tv

they receive subscriber fees whether you watch them or not

i have been cable tv free since 2007

dont miss it one bit

[T.B. Yoits]

Propaganda Media korporations are guilty of billions of dollars worth of illegal political campaign contributions-in-kind. The executives need to be charged for every penny.

These korporations also need to lose their Section 230 liability protection. By censoring, they're content creators, not just content carriers.

[Steely Tom]

I’ve been cable tv free since 2001.

[ridesthemiles]

I CUT the cord when I moved from So Calif in May 1963.

DO NOT MISS IT.

[MplsSteve]

Living in Minnesota, it makes me happy to see Amy Klobuchar either screw something up or get screwed out of something.

[lepton]

Bump