Political Quotes

“I am told the Senator from Arkansas is up, and I will be very brief. I appreciate his courtesy. Once again, the Senator from Missouri is getting it all wrong. He talks again about how this law--this bipartisan law--is basically not for the little guy, but he is taking on the big guys. Well, the reason that is factually wrong is that on this floor, a previous effort was made to deal with sex trafficking. It was called SESTA and FOSTA, and the desire was--we are all against this horrible smut online. We are all against it. The desire was to block it. As the debate went forward, I and others said: You are not going to be able to block it. You are going to be able to block Backpage, like what eventually happened under existing law, which I supported--not under this new thing. Well, guess who supported this SESTA-FOSTA deal that is pretty much like the Senator from Missouri--it was Facebook. Facebook supported the last effort. Last time I looked, they are a pretty big company. So the Senator from Missouri is just getting it all wrong here. I come back to the proposition--I see my friend from Vermont, who has been really the tech expert here--that what we have always been about is the little guy, and you see it every day with Me Too, Black Lives Matter, and so many voices from the community that, because of this law, can be heard.…”