Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate
by oblio on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @08:16AM
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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 As part of a sweeping repeal of wartime laws, Congress repealed the Sedition Act on December 13, 1920
The second wasn't a wartime act and even that was repealed.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.
Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate
by Clubber on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:12AM
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He meant the Espionage Act, which is currently being used to seek prosecution of Snowden and Assange, among others.
Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate
by kongin on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:24AM
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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...
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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.
>Post WW1 didn't erode rights, it actually increased them. Post
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918
>Post WW2, the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Act
And on and on. There are libraries written about this, but no one cares because there has been a bi-partisan consensus that citizen's rights need to be curtailed.