On September 8th at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the JCPA, Senator Ted Cruz introduced a proposal which temporarily forced the Democrat co-sponsors to withdraw the bill.
If Sen. Cruz intended to expose Democrats’ pro-censorship motivations, he succeeded. But inexplicably, he has now agreed on a new amendment with Senator Amy Klobuchar that enables and facilitates the censorship he purports to oppose.
The core concept of the JCPA is to allow media companies to form a legal cartel in the U.S., for the sole purpose of negotiating with tech giants for special favors.
When Sen. Cruz successfully inserted an amendment into the derided media bailout bill limiting the scope of those negotiations to price, it exposed the pro-censorship motivations of the bill’s Democrat supporters.
Its lead sponsor, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), preferred to withdraw the bill from…
