{"id":230227,"date":"2026-06-11T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/ted-cruz-and-ron-wyden-try-to-fight-censorship-with-bipartisan-jawbone-act\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:40:09","slug":"ted-cruz-and-ron-wyden-try-to-fight-censorship-with-bipartisan-jawbone-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/ted-cruz-and-ron-wyden-try-to-fight-censorship-with-bipartisan-jawbone-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden try to fight censorship with bipartisan JAWBONE Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/06\/ted-cruz-and-ron-wyden-try-to-fight-censorship-with-bipartisan-jawbone-act\/\">Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden try to fight censorship with bipartisan JAWBONE Act<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/06\/ted-cruz-and-ron-wyden-try-to-fight-censorship-with-bipartisan-jawbone-act\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/06\/ted-cruz-and-ron-wyden-try-to-fight-censorship-with-bipartisan-jawbone-act\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-11 15:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"arstechnica.com\">arstechnica.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The bill aims to amend current legal precedent, permitting plaintiffs to seek financial damages for coercion without proving it succeeded in changing or removing their content.<\/li>\n<li>It shifts the responsibility to hold any government agency or employee accountable for unlawful censorship, even after they have left office, through financial damages.<\/li>\n<li>The bill introduces limitations on the financial payouts, allowing only compensatory damages and not punitive damages.<\/li>\n<li>A new portal will be created to provide a public summary and full access to communications between agencies and social media, AI, and broadcasting companies to ensure transparency and prevent secret jawboning.<\/li>\n<li>The bill categorizes broadcasters and speech-enabling artificial intelligence systems as critical entities for access to information and individual expression, defending them against government censorship.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCoerce\u201d is defined broadly to include harmful actions, implications of such actions, or threats; however, it excludes lawful investigations, law enforcement, and actions under a warrant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden try to fight censorship with bipartisan JAWBONE Act https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/06\/ted-cruz-and-ron-wyden-try-to-fight-censorship-with-bipartisan-jawbone-act\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ted-cruz-ron-wyden-1152x648-1781205333.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-230227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230229,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230227\/revisions\/230229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}