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Media cartel bill accused of enabling more censorship

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Senator Tom Cotton has said that liberals and Democrats are supporting the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, a controversial bill that would allow media organizations to form cartels to negotiate with Big Tech companies, because it promotes censorship.

“There’s a reason that Dems and the liberal media universally support the Journalism Competition and Protection Act. And it’s not because they want to protect free speech for conservatives”, Cotton tweeted after a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting where Cruz supported the bill after certain amendments.

During the hearing, Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, argued that the bill is “not about ...

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