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A Bipartisan Effort to Stop Government Bullying of the Media
Sens. Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden don’t agree on much. But they do agree that government officials shouldn’t be able to pressure private companies into suppressing speech.
The two senators have introduced the Justice Against Weaponized Bureaucratic Overreach to Networked Expression Act — better known as the JAWBONE Act. The bill would create new legal remedies for people who believe government agencies or employees tried to coerce companies into censoring protected speech.
Under the proposal, people could sue government officials for so-called “jawboning” even if the effort to suppress speech…
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