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During World War I, a silent film spoke volumes about freedom of speech

  • Written by Eric P. Robinson, Assistant Professor of Media Law and Ethics, University of South Carolina
imageChief John Big Tree, Dark Cloud, Jack Cosgrave, Adda Gleason and Robert Goldstein in The Spirit of '76 (1917).IMDb

In the United States, “The Great War” led to unprecedented efforts by the federal government to control and restrict “unpatriotic” speech. But the boundary between speech that undermined the government and...

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