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Free speech wasn't so free 103 years ago, when 'seditious' and 'unpatriotic' speech was criminalized in the US

  • Written by Eric P. Robinson, Assistant Professor (media law and ethics), University of South Carolina
imageEugene Debs, at center with flowers, who was serving a prison sentence for violating the Espionage Act, on the day he was notified of his nomination for the presidency on the socialist ticket by a delegation of leading socialists.George Rinhard/Corbis Historical/Getty Images

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