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"Madam President, President Reagan famously said, ‘If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.’ I suggest to the House that this is the anti-business approach of the European Union when it comes to the television industry, especially with regard to regulating the industry.
We have here one of the most competitive industries that exists. People in the industry fight to gain viewers, they fight to hold viewers and so, except in special cases, for example involving children, there is simply no need for regulation. The operators are already working as hard as they can to make sure that what they present is attractive to viewers.
The second piece of damage that this proposal will do is to innovation. Inevitably, what we are doing here is setting today’s technology in stone. None of us in this Chamber knows what will happen next year or the year after; we are creating, therefore, a barrier to innovation and we should reject the whole proposal."@en1
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