Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
by MiroF on Monday January 10, 2022 @04:40PM
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Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
by DangitBobby on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:33PM
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On the 1918 Sedition Act
> It forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt. Those convicted under the act generally received sentences of imprisonment for five to 20 years.[2] The act also allowed the Postmaster General to refuse to deliver mail that met those same standards for punishable speech or opinion. It applied only to times "when the United States is in war." The U.S. was in a declared state of war at the time of passage, the First World War.[3] The law was repealed on December 13, 1920.[4]
Holy moly! Land of the free indeed.
Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
by Nbox9 on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @09:49AM
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Could you imagine being at war with Europe and having free speech about the war limited?
Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
by x86_64Ubuntu on Monday January 10, 2022 @04:36PM
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You've dismissed only one point that parent commenter made. And if the country held personal conviction to such a high esteem, 1798 Sedition Act as well as the other things parent commenter mentioned should have never happened. But we know they did.
> I think you might have a grandiose mental image of America’s past.
And your attempt to use the historically trivial 1798 Sedition Act in the manner that you did indicates you may have the opposite and mistaken mental image. If anything the US learned from the Sedition Act and became better for that very short-lived mistake.