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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by Animats on Thursday October 03, 2019 @06:36PM (#21152991)
During WW2, American federal government established Office of Censorship whose sole purpose was to review and censor all communications coming into and out of the country. Now imagine them finding that someone is mailing letters written in an unbreakable code. How long do you think it would take for the FBI to break down that person's door?

It wasn't done that way. Envelopes were opened, and stamped "Opened by Censor". Material was cut out of letters. Censorship was not concealed at all.[1][2]

[1] https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2001/spring/m...

[2] https://sparks-auctions.com/SAN/28/281401a.jpg

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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by MadWombat on Friday October 04, 2019 @10:17AM (#21157934)
I never said they were secretive about it. I said they opened, read and edited people's letters and the public was completely OK with it.
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