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Censorship came to British America with the Mayflower "when the governor of Plymouth, Massachusetts, William Bradford learned [in 1629] [4] that Thomas Morton of Merrymount, in addition to his other misdeed, had 'composed sundry rhymes and verses, some tending to lasciviousness' the only solution was to send a military expedition to break up Morton's high-living."
Political censorship exists when a government attempts to conceal, fake, distort, or falsify information that its citizens receive by suppressing or crowding out political news that the public might receive through news outlets.
During colonial times, English speech regulations were rather restrictive.The English criminal common law of seditious libel made criticizing the government a crime. Lord Chief Justice John Holt, writing in 1704–1705, explained the rationale for the prohibition: "For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it."
The Supreme Court on Monday appeared deeply skeptical of arguments by two conservative states that the First Amendment bars the government from pressuring social media platforms to remove online ...
Columnist Charita Goshay writes that Ohio's divisive subjects bill is a solution in search of problem.
The First Amendment puts protection for expressive content in terms that are both sweeping and absolute: "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press" [2] Despite this broad protection, the roots of U.S. attempts to legally suppress obscenity extend back to the English common law offense of obscene libel and censorship of stage plays by the Master of the Revels.
When it comes to controversial kinds of what the Supreme Court calls political speech, speech about public issues, we are more speech protective in many ways than countries that are otherwise ...
Arizona passed a law, but it was overturned by the Arizona Supreme Court as unconstitutional. [6] The Republican-majority North Carolina State Legislature passed a similar law, but it was vetoed by Democratic Governor Roy Cooper. [6] Several other states introduced bills that failed to pass or as of November 2021 were still awaiting action. [6]