Senate Bill 3591 would set up a structure for online news outlets to negotiate with social media platforms to get compensated when someone shares a news story on their news feed. Jeff Jarvis, a longtime journalist and professor, questioned the First Amendment implications, and said that in locations that have already done this, social media companies ended sharing news stories online, resulting in no loss of traffic for them, but lost traffic to the news outlet.
Someone has to shore up the flagging reserves of the left wing outlets now begging for cash like a common street corner vagrant. Their audience doesn’t pay for their socially progressive clap trap and everyone else only needs to wrap fish entrails or line the bird cage every so often. How soon before the burden of keeping this sinking banana republic boat afloat falls to the taxpayers, making it a government owned media source?
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Someone has to shore up the flagging reserves of the left wing outlets now begging for cash like a common street corner vagrant. Their audience doesn’t pay for their socially progressive clap trap and everyone else only needs to wrap fish entrails or line the bird cage every so often. How soon before the burden of keeping this sinking banana republic boat afloat falls to the taxpayers, making it a government owned media source?