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pixl97 4 hours ago

Eh, there was a lot of media censorship during WWII.

kibwen 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's entirely common for the government to wipe their ass with the first amendment during wartime.

> The objective of wartime censorship was to prevent the exposure of sensitive military information to the enemy. Similar censorship had been practiced by the U.S. Army in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. During World War I, however, the press censorship system was formalized and extended, according to the Army's official history, to include anything that might "injure morale in our forces here, or at home, or among our Allies," or "embarrass the United States or her Allies in neutral countries."

https://www.army.mil/article/199675/u_s_army_press_censorshi...

dennis_jeeves2 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> It's entirely common for the government to wipe their ass with the first amendment during wartime.

Happens even without a war, just saying...

kibwen 23 minutes ago | parent [-]

Let me rephrase that: it's entirely common for the government to wipe their ass with the first amendment using war as a pretense.

tencentshill 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So we give up our rights when at war? Why not always be at war? Eastasia has always been at war with us.

pixl97 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes and yes.

It's unfortunate life isn't black and white, but that's the way it is.

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folkrav 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Guess why the US now has a "Department of War".

aunty_helen 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hauntingly, they’re actually calling the ME “west asia” now.

In my copy of animal farm, there’s actually a foreword relevant for this discussion. It goes into Orwells difficulty getting things published around ww2 as there was speech that whilst legal was frowned upon during wartime.

righthand 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

“It’s fine because it happened during WWII, the only thing we base history off of to determine limiting rights is fine. Dumber less informed people did it, so should we!”