U.S. Senate panel delays vote on bill allowing news outlets to negotiate jointly with Big Tech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee scrapped a deliberate vote on Thursday aimed toward permitting information organizations to win extra income from Alphabet’s Google and Meta’s Fb.
“As we speak we held over the invoice within the Judiciary Committee partly as a result of a colleague was out and we would have liked his vote on one modification,” mentioned invoice sponsor Senator Amy Klobuchar. “I totally plan to maneuver ahead with the invoice.”
Supporters of the invoice have mentioned that it’s essential as a way to be sure that information organizations, which have struggled to make earnings lately, obtain a justifiable share of promoting income from Google and Fb by permitting them to band collectively to barter collectively with the tech corporations.
Not like different payments aimed toward reining in massive tech, some progressive teams oppose this measure, together with Public Data, Widespread Trigger and Shopper Stories. The teams joined a letter that criticized the measure as a result of, amongst different issues, it “favors massive broadcasters akin to Information Corp, Sinclair, iHeart and Comcast/NBCU over some other type of journalism, and it undermines the acknowledged objective of serving to native information.”
(Reporting by Diane Bartz; Enhancing by Mark Porter)
