Richard Blumenthal

The problem is, there is just no basis to trust that social media will do anything about this anymore.

I'm very hopeful that Congress perhaps can act on this issue because it has an urgency.

A right without a remedy is not worth the paper it's printed on.

Well, the printing press never created anything. Ben Franklin ran a printing shop, and Ben Franklin would never have told us here that, 'Oh, it's not my fault. It's the printing press that did it.'

One of the core principles of the framework that Senator Hawley and I have proposed is record keeping and transparency.

The argument could be made, I think, that the law now requires this kind of licensing.

Local reporting is the lifeblood of our democracy, and local reporting by newspapers and broadcast stations are in existential crisis.

My point would be that those hundreds of journalists who are working their hearts out right now... they deserve compensation for the content they're creating.

We're going to continue working on this topic, as we are the issue of monopolistic practice and predatory abuse.

There is no free lunch here. The content doesn't appear by magic, and we need to protect both the innovation and the creativity.

I'm very hopeful that Congress perhaps can act on this issue because it has an urgency.

A right without a remedy is not worth the paper it's printed on.

Well, the printing press never created anything. Ben Franklin ran a printing shop, and Ben Franklin would never have told us here that, 'Oh, it's not my fault. It's the printing press that did it.'

There is a double whammy here.

Nonetheless, we have introduced No Section 230 Immunity for AI Act, just to make it explicit and clear.

One of the core principles of the framework that Senator Hawley and I have proposed is record keeping and transparency.

The argument could be made, I think, that the law now requires this kind of licensing.

I think there are some that maybe we can form a consensus around, just as Senator Hawley and I have on the framework that we've proposed.

Local reporting is the lifeblood of our democracy, and local reporting by newspapers and broadcast stations are in existential crisis.

We're going to continue working on this topic.

I'm very hopeful that Congress perhaps can act on this issue because it has an urgency.

Well, the printing press never created anything. Ben Franklin ran a printing shop, and Ben Franklin would never have told us here that, 'Oh, it's not my fault. It's the printing press that did it.'

The organizations that use your content to train or appropriated, in effect, misappropriated without crediting or paying for it, can't be sued.

There is no free lunch here.

A right without a remedy is not worth the paper it's printed on.