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Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by Clubber on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:12AM (#28456452)
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

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Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by kongin on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:24AM (#28457469)
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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