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pixl97yesterday at 2:09 PM3 repliesview on HN

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


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kibwenyesterday at 3:06 PM

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...

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tencentshillyesterday at 2:20 PM

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

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righthandyesterday at 2:47 PM

“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!”