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by infogulch 2009 days ago
> This framing is also sort of a misrepresentation

The title of this post is: Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming

Are you sure? Why are we passing completely new laws in our yearly budget bill? What does streaming laws have to do with paying forestry service janitors?

Maybe we wouldn't have a government shutdown emergency every year if our representatives didn't try to shoehorn their pet laws and their <strike>customers'</strike>lobbyists' favorite regulations in at the same time.