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    "speaker_name": "Sen Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "sometimes. Given the work that I do elsewhere in this Parliament, sometimes I find myself in difficult situations of balancing between being a Senator and their representative elsewhere. However, we must still say the truth about what they do to some of our Bill. In fact, Sen. Wetangula, you may want to know that when we passed that Bill, because I was a member of the Committee on Information, Communication and Technology last term, they dumped it to gather dust. It was never processed until when we came back in 2017. They republished it afresh and purported to be a Bill generated by the National Assembly. Back to the topic that we are discussing, if you are a keen follower of news, you will realise that yesterday, the Government of France, fined Google, the leading global tech firm, €500 million for copyright infringement. That is how serious governments are taking and putting to task some of these global conglomerates and tech firms that look into the rest of the world without any consideration of the effects. To many of them, it is just a business. So long as people are advertising, they are fine with it; without taking proper detail and considering what the effects of their work are. Many Kenyans do not know what even when you make a simple tweet and my friend Sen. Murkomen is good at that. He does not know that as he tweets for fun and pleasure, he is generating business to other people elsewhere and he never gets paid for it. It is time that as a Government, because we included –"
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