A Bipartisan Congressional Bill Allows the Media to Censor Conservatives

There should be no safe harbor from anti-trust laws for media cartels.

September 4, 2019 Daniel Greenfield

The mass censorship of conservatives by the Google/Facebook duopoly was due to pressure from the mainstream media which claimed that President Trump won because of conservative “fake news”.

Since then conservative media sites have suffered huge traffic losses. Some have been barred from advertising on Facebook. Conservative personalities are being deplatformed and shadowbanned daily. Google’s YouTube platform has decimated the business models of countless conservative sites.

The push by a cartel of media organizations to censor and deplatform conservative media while creating a privileged position for their own content was an anti-trust violation. Facebook has explicitly colluded with the media cartel to make media fact checkers into the gatekeepers for content on social media.

Now a bipartisan congressional bill would give the media an official exemption from anti-trust law.

The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act of 2019 is a project of the News Media Alliance. The NMA is an alliance of thousands of print media outlets ranging from major national papers like the New York Times and the Washington Post, to huge empires like McClatchy (29 newspapers), Gatehouse Media (144 papers now, 260 papers after the Gannett merger) to some smaller companies.

The official goal of the bill is to allow print media to negotiate better terms with Google and Facebook. Not only is the bill legally dubious, but it threatens to legalize the media’s purge of conservatives on social media..........To Read More....