16 May 1918: The Sedition Act, an amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917, was signed into law by President Wilson, further restricting freedom of speech & criminalizing opposition to the war, even "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, & abusive language;" the Act applied only "when the United States is in war," but some of those incarcerated remained so after the Armistice & the Paris Peace Conference.
Lest we forget.
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