The Australian Green Party will support making Facebook and Google pay to redistribute journalistic articles if the plan is extended to cover more sources of journalism.

I am very much in favor of this, as I expect that it will pry loose those companies' influence over what news people access.

There are some sorts of works that I believe should be free. But that doesn't apply to news articles. I think individuals such as you and me should be free to redistribute exact copies, but I don't think that companies such as Google and Facebook are entitled to that right. Thus, I see nothing immoral about such a tax. It is a pragmatic question and nothing more.

Connecticut's public campaign funding system (for state offices) has been a big success. It has reduced the influence of big money.

Massachusetts adopted a similar system decades ago by initiative petition, but the legislators repealed it. We voted for the public funding system again by initiative petition, and the legislators repealed it again. Why anyone voted to reelect any legislator who had eliminated the system, I cannot comprehend, but people did.

Delaware has sued 31 fossil fuel companies plus the American Petroleum Institute for the predicted damage that will result from the greenhouse gas emissions they have already made.

All the oil companies' money can't compensate for the damage that their products are doing, but massive lawsuits against them can help defeat them and take away their power continue.

*Another Four Years of Trump Might Kill Off Remaining Hope Saving Planet From Climate Destruction.*

Sad to say, four years of Biden might have the same result.

The wrecker continues ordering policy changes to undermine Americans' safety: legal, economic and physical.

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