and now our remaining witness who was appearing remotely is dan gainor, vice president free speech america business for the media research center. thank you for being with us, mr. gainor. .. >> every single member of this committee would do the same. the conservation act of 2021 does not fix this problem. attempt to level the playing field of tech and journalism. it's a misinterpretation of history that it was killed by tech companies. it was not. how do i know? i was there working with local journalism, bought at 20 to 25 to 30% profit reinvested. and there's the delivery that became difficult out of traffic and turned to tv news. furthermore, where i grew up, none of that was caused by this. the director of new media began to catch on and watched the organization downplayed the threat and put the content off for free. news outlets were unable to look at the opportunity and they were dissected by the competition. there was the particular toll of local businesses and that meant advising, and restrictions were an example of heavy hand of government on local news, that's the background that