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