Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has signed on to call by all major conservative media to back a bipartisan bill that will offer the most serious rollback of Big Tech power in decades. The JCPA, or Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, is designed to bring search and social media platforms such as Google and Facebook to the bargaining table to pay for original news content they scrape off of third-party websites. These companies, in turn, make immense profits for themselves without any sharing arrangement with content creators. The proposed law requires these companies to pay publishers for the aggregated content used on Big Tech platforms. The JCPA has been backed by almost all major conservative online media – including Newsmax, the Washington Examiner, the Daily Caller, Washington Times, Townhall, and Salem Media, among others. As Congress moves through the lame duck session, McConnell, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed to include the JCPA legislation in the pending National Defense Authorization Act.… read more news: https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/mitch-mcconnell-big-tech-journalism/2022/12/06/id/1099245/ It’s about time! This is a good bi partisan bill. Big Tech social media should have to pay news sources for their original content.
Definitely. If we could get news and politics off of social media all together, it would be a win for the country.
Facebook owner Mark Zuck played a huge role, illegally, in getting Biden elected: https://apnews.com/article/business-seattle-washington-8e0dfaf7f9d7246583da33693559d36e It's a good step, but I want the people behind big tech brought to justice as well as those in The FBI that were colluding with them.
