An antitrust bill intending to give news publishers leverage to combat Big Tech crashed into bipartisan opposition in the House and Senate Thursday.
The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee, but House Speakerhas declared it dead in the House and Sen. Alex Padilla, California Democrat, plans to prevent its passage in the Senate.
“I’m afraid that the bill would give media and Big Tech companies a free pass to collude to censor the views of conservatives,” Mr. Cotton said. “The version of the bill we’re considering today does include provisions that allegedly fix this problem by prohibiting news discrimination by Big Tech based on viewpoint of the content. Unfortunately, the bill would still allow the media and Big Tech companies plenty of backdoors to collectively censor conservative views and voices.
“I am more than happy to work with our colleagues but if the answer is going to be ‘my way or the highway’ and the answer is always whatever Big Tech wants they get, then we aren’t going to advance this bill,” Ms. Klobuchar said. “Let’s just be honest if that’s what we want to tell the world.” “This bill will create a mechanism to allow the two sides to sit down and negotiate on fair compensation,” Mr. Kennedy said at the meeting. “I can’t guarantee it’ll work.”
Mr. Padilla said Thursday he would put a hold on the legislation once it reaches the Senate floor. He said he harbored concerns that the legislation won’t benefit individual journalists and stop people from freely linking to others’ content online.
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