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"content": "and participate. I long for the time when county governments will invest in their own creative industries. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I lived in a small town called Concord in Massachusetts. Every Christmas holiday, you would find all the fine artists coming to perform. The little town of Concord and the businesses would sponsor the young people to be able to do their performance. This is where we want to go. Towns have bands. People are paid to be able to be in that band. If we over-regulate and set up a board that sits in Nairobi to regulate the creative industry, we are killing this industry. In my opinion, since we are a country that is struggling to create jobs and look for jobs for these people, let us allow them to use the internet for free. Let us not tax the internet whatsoever. Let us allow them to build their content, so that they can use TikTok, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. I come from a school of thought that believes that we should never tax something which is free. The internet connects us. I tell my staff that, your network is your net worth. So, this creative industry should be looking at the networks that they have out there. Which networks are these? They have people who will sit down and go through Facebook. Let us find a way that these companies, which are formed in foreign countries, can support children here pay for their school fees. I have almost two million followers on X, and from time to time, I get a small amount of money from X. It is small, yet it is taxed. I wish it was not taxed, because I could probably donate to someone else to support them. So, the most important thing is that we need to think about this Bill. I want to have a sit down with Sen. Eddy, so that during the Committee of the Whole, we can try and see how we can develop a piece of legislation that will not make it difficult for content creators to make money. It will make it easier for them to benefit. I wish we could have one thing in this country which is free. You cannot create jobs for everybody. Allow them to go make money. Let them use their knowledge and make money. Secondly, I do not fully support the Bill. I partially support it. Let me correct myself, because Sen. Eddy is one of the most intelligent young Senators that you will find here. I would like to talk about establishment of this Creative Industry Guild. Why should that Guild be advising the Cabinet Secretary? What is the role of a Cabinet Secretary in my creativity? There is absolutely no role. This Guild should be looking at how to engage the private sector, for the private sector to invest in the young content creators and in the sector. For instance, if it is for me advertising the milk that I produce, I look for a young Maasai, Giriama or Somali content creator to advertise that milk. The Guild should be talking to the private sector, not the Cabinet Secretary. These authorities are created every time and you are giving these Cabinet Secretaries so much power, yet when you invite these Cabinet Secretaries to your committees, they come unprepared, looking clueless. For instance, today, I was perplexed. We had the Cabinet Secretary for Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development, coming to the Senate Standing Committee on Land and Natural Resources to respond to approximately 20 Statements and Petitions, which were requested and piling in our office. However, when she came, she was not ready. We sit there and waste The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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