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May 5, 2018 10 tweets 2 min read
Press freedom is hanging by a thread in Britain, but no one is talking about it. On Wednesday, the House of Commons will vote on the Data Protection Bill, and Labour MPs have added amendments to it that would effectively end 300 years of press freedom in Britain 1/10 Since the Leveson Inquiry, journalists have been hauled before courts on spurious charges only to be acquitted. A state-approved regulator, Impress, has been set up for the first time since 1695. But no newspaper -- even those that cheered on Leveson -- will sign up to it. 2/10