Imposing cable-era taxes on streaming services will discourage innovation, limit choices for consumers, and increase prices. Broadcasters do not need new regulations to reach viewers or be carried on streaming services, but rather seek leverage to demand higher prices for their programming.
The broadcasters clearly don’t need new regulations to reach viewers or be carried on streaming services. What they really seek is leverage to demand higher prices for their programming through the same kind of brinksmanship, blackouts and government-supervised negotiations that occur with satellite and cable systems today.
Local news is vital, but the way to support it as a society is to do so directly — not through regulatory sleight-of-hand.
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