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Congressional Testimony: The Leading Activists for Online Censorship Are Corporate Journalists<\/a><\/h3>\n

A hearing of the House Subcommittee focused on anti-trust and monopoly abuses examines the role of the corporate media in these growing pathologies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hearing of the House Judiciary\u2019s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, Mar. 12, 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

There are not many<\/strong>\u00a0Congressional committees regularly engaged in substantive and serious work \u2014 most are performative \u2014 but the House Judiciary\u2019s\u00a0Subcommittee<\/a>\u00a0on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law is an exception. Led by its chairman Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) and ranking member Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), it is, with a few exceptions, composed of lawmakers whose knowledge of tech monopolies and anti-trust law is impressive.<\/p>\n

In October, the Committee, after a sixteen-month investigation, produced one of those most comprehensive and informative\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0by any government body anywhere in the world about the multi-pronged threats to democracy posed by four Silicon Valley monopolies: Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple. The 450-page report also\u00a0proposed<\/a>\u00a0sweeping solutions, including ways to break up these companies and\/or constrain them from controlling our political discourse and political life. That report merits much greater attention and consideration than it has thus far received.<\/p>\n

The Subcommittee held a\u00a0hearing<\/a>\u00a0on Friday and I was invited to testify along with Microsoft President Brad Smith; President of the News Guild-Communications Workers of America Jonathan Schleuss, the Outkick\u2019s Clay Travis, CEO of the Graham Media Group Emily Barr, and CEO of the News Media Alliance David Chavern. The ostensible purpose the hearing was a narrow one: to consider\u00a0a bill<\/a>\u00a0that would vest media outlets with an exemption from anti-trust laws to collectively bargain with tech companies such as Facebook and Google so that they can obtain a\u00a0greater share of the ad revenue<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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glenn greenwald, media, big tech, facebook, google, amazon, apple,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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