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2022-12-06 Government Corruption
Cocaine Mitch Caves to Pelosi, Schumer, Allows JCPA Media Cartel Bailout Bill to Be Included in Defense Package
[Breitbart] Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell has caved to outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and will allow the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to include the highly controversial media cartel bill the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News.
Caves? No, the Troika of Grandmasters is simply executing a culminating strategic move. The Chinese Meishans are headed toward the feeders.
Over objections from House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, the likely next speaker of the House come January 3 of next year, other congressional leaders acquiesced to lobbyist pressure and agreed to include the JCPA in the base text of the NDAA. McCarthy was the only member of congressional leadership to fight back against the inclusion, but was overruled three to one after McConnell caved.

Skipping down to the bottom line of State and party censorship via media control:
The JCPA, essentially a transfer of wealth from Silicon Valley to the discredited and distrusted corporate legacy media, is highly controversial. Beyond the financial payouts to media companies, they will be able to form a “joint negotiating entity”—a cartel, immune from antitrust law—to negotiate with Big Tech companies on the “terms and conditions” for carrying their content.

Censorship is sure to be a frequent demand of media companies. Despite provisions in the bill that purportedly stop media companies from negotiating the suppression of any one competitor, there is nothing to stop them asking their content to be prioritized over broadly-drawn categories that are used as pretexts for censorship, like “disinformation.”

Breitbart News has closely covered how the bill continues to enable the censorship and sidelining of conservative media.
Embedded disinformation agents within Twitter have recently been rolled up, other platforms like Google and FB will also suffer the cleansing effects of light. New disinformation and censorship control networks must be developed under the cover of public law.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-06 02:14|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Facebook Warns It May Remove All News from Platform Over JCPA
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-06 02:15||   2022-12-06 02:15|| Front Page Top

#2 The JCPA Contains a Massive Loophole for China
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-06 02:17||   2022-12-06 02:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Progressives Including ACLU Blast Pelosi Over Adding JCPA to NDAA: ‘Handout to Hedge Funds’
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-06 02:19||   2022-12-06 02:19|| Front Page Top

#4 The failed Disinformation Governance board has now become the “joint negotiating entity.” Nina Jankowicz will be delighted as her new agency takes shape.

Financial balm for FB and the ACLU is being packaged as we speak.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-06 03:21||   2022-12-06 03:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, gee, no wonder the legacy media acts in the manner it does.
Posted by DooDahMan 2022-12-06 04:42||   2022-12-06 04:42|| Front Page Top

#6 It's a 'Hunter laptop' control thing. We really don't have "a need to know."
Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-06 05:49||   2022-12-06 05:49|| Front Page Top

#7 And this is why the eGOP will continue to shrink and become sidelined.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-12-06 08:00||   2022-12-06 08:00|| Front Page Top

#8 ...and why they're deathly afraid of Trump as the Left. However, as long as you insist in finding JC to run for the office, its what you are going to get.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-12-06 10:29||   2022-12-06 10:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Democrats Try to Attach Marijuana Reform to Defense Bill
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-06 11:34||   2022-12-06 11:34|| Front Page Top

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