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>I had never heard of this bill before today. Who was going to tell you about it? Time, NYT, CNN, WaPo? Nope.

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• adventured 9y ago
  Oh they told you about it, they were favorable to it: [Feb 14 2018] "Don’t Let Criminals Hide Their Data Overseas" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/opinion/data-overseas-legislation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/opinion/data-overseas-leg... [Mar 5 2018] "A promising solution is the Cloud (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data) Act, introduced by a bipartisan coalition in the Senate last month." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-global-game-of-whack-a-mole-overseas-data-rules-are-stuck-in-the-19th-century/2018/03/05/f24851e6-2096-11e8-86f6-54bfff693d2b_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-global-game-of-wha...
  • jacques_chester 9y ago
    Both of these are opinion page pieces. Newspapers publish a wide variety of these without endorsing the position.
    • rnnr 9y ago
      they still pick the opinions they publish.
      • jacques_chester 9y ago
        Because atoms are in limited supply. It does not mean endorsement.
  • sah2ed 9y ago
    In fairness, your links are opinion pieces not staff reporting.
    • pmyteh 9y ago
      And there's some staff reporting as well, which is actually pretty reasonable. This is from the Post last August: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/08/01/senate-launches-bill-to-remove-immunity-for-websites-hosting-illegal-content-spurred-by-backpage-com/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/08/01...