the governor of the free to do whatever ron desantis tells you to state of florida is at it again with america s sunshine state viktor orban taking aim at what he refers to as woke corporations this. times he s proposing new rules on which businesses can get florida investment, prohibiting those that take no account what is called esg factors, environmental social and governance, a common practice to screen a company s behavior for crappiness before investing in them. now, you see, desantis is anti-big business but only when that business does not agree with his policies and ideology. let us not forget earlier this year when he moved to strip disney of its self-governance privileges simply because they dared to push back on his hideous don t say gay law. he even went after the special olympics for requiring its athletes to be vaccinated prompting california governor gavin newsom to run ads in florida denouncing him. his goal is not only going after his adversaries but looking to
everything. antitrust and monopolies have everything to do with our economy. the prices we pay and the way we live. you know, you are going to face a ton of lobbying enforce and money that is pouring into washington to stop this. is it going to get across the finish line? i just have faith when i saw 16 senators, we had six people vote against it and we had a spirited debate. and we always look at making changes to a bill. but 16 senators stood up to a multimillion dollars lobbying campaign, 2500 lobbyists. they literally had run ads against the bill. and that was a pretty good moment. and it was bipartisan, across the aisle, the house, david sis lynn any, ken buck have done bipartisan work over there and the time has come. there has literally been no tech competition bill that has passed through the congress since the advent of the internet. and so, it is time to make sure we have an even playing field. adam smith always said he was a big supporter, godfather of
don t pay for your service? senator, we run ads. run ads. not that they sell ads. what s the difference? because what they sell is the access to you and to a staggering degree our kids. you see what i m saying? it s not that they re getting money like a magazine or something like that. it s the information. it s the access. and it s what is being put in front of our kids. for example, did you know that for the first quarter of this year, guess what the most popular link was on facebook. take a guess. you re wrong. it was a site link about misinformation that was feeding anti-vax movement. how is that okay? this business model is becoming known as surveillance
run ads. not that they sell ads. what s the difference? because what they sell is the access to you and to a staggering degree our kids. you see what i m saying? it s not that they re getting money like a magazine or something like that. it s the information. it s the access. and it s what is being put in front of our kids. for example, did you know that for the first quarter of this year, guess what the most popular link was on facebook. take a guess. you re wrong. it was a site link about misinformation that was feeding anti-vax movement. how is that okay? this business model is becoming known as surveillance capitalism. how is that okay? my next guest knows the reality, okay? he worked in there. he was one of the earliest investors. he understands the business
on. what democrats red line is they won t agree in any form or fashion to do the next debt limit increase in reconciliation as senator mcconnell suggested in his statement and democrats are kind of going around saying mcconnell caved and blinked and this is a victory. one thing mcconnell gets is democrats will put a number on this and pass it, them shelves with their votes. they ll put a number and republicans will try to say they should put a number again when this comes up again in december. it looks like as you point out, joy, we ll do this again in a couple months. again, everybody again focused. they re doing it to run ads. not because of some high conservative principle, something that matters that s deeply held some principle. they re doing it to run ads. that s embarrassing. it is embarrassing for a first world democracy. senator al franken, aaron haynes, sahill, thank you very much. up next on the reidout, have you seen this man.