Wyden, Cruz Bill Aims To Stop Jawboning
- The First Amendment faces significant challenges today with growing calls for speech restrictions and censorship by various groups.
- Progressives seek restrictions on hate speech, and Democrats have encouraged companies to censor misinformation during the pandemic.
- The FCC under a Republican president has threatened to use its licensing power against broadcasters over political issues.
- Wyden and Cruz have proposed a bill aiming to prevent government pressure, known as jawboning, on speech platforms.
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Wyden And Cruz Team Up On A Bill To Stop Government Jawboning. It’s… Actually Pretty Good?
Senators Ron Wyden and Ted Cruz have released the JAWBONE Act (“Justice Against Weaponized Bureaucratic Overreach to Networked Expression Act”) as a way to prevent government suppression of speech. While some of the premises behind it are silly and nonsensical, the actual law is not bad. Of course, if it became law, the Trump admin would face a bunch of lawsuits over it, but we’ll leave that aside for now. For much of the Biden administration th…
Wyden, Cruz Bill Aims To Stop Jawboning
Washington, D.C. — In a rare sign of bipartisanship in Washington, Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden and Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz are working together to stop government censorship. The senators are introducing the Justice Against Weaponized Bureaucratic Overreach To Networked Expression, or Jawbone Act, to hold the government accountable for violations of the first […] The post Wyden, Cruz Bill Aims To Stop Jawboning appeared first o…
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