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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.

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-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-wha...

Both of these are opinion page pieces. Newspapers publish a wide variety of these without endorsing the position.

they still pick the opinions they publish.

Because atoms are in limited supply. It does not mean endorsement.

In fairness, your links are opinion pieces not staff reporting.

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...

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