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Do you even read your own links?

> As part of a sweeping repeal of wartime laws, Congress repealed the Sedition Act on December 13, 1920

The second wasn't a wartime act and even that was repealed. Talk about cherry picking.




He meant the Espionage Act, which is currently being used to seek prosecution of Snowden and Assange, among others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917


Yes, it's hard to keep track of which act was used to curtail what freedoms.

The Sedition Act was used to silence opposition to conscription and gave us the immortal quote of "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States

Of course the 'fire' in that case was this letter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States#/medi...

Which seems like an extremely level headed question about conscription in the US given that involuntary servitude should only be a punishment for a crime.




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