We used to roll our eyes when our teachers told us that "...freedom isn't free" or that "...we have to fight for our freedoms," no one is rolling their eyes anymore.
This is an excellent article from the Federalist showing that fighting for our freedoms is truer now than it has ever been. When representatives of government use their positions to pressure (threat) a private company when those companies are simply exercising their constitutional right of freedom of speech we can clearly see a deep disintegration of our countries founding principles.
The Supreme Court ruled hat "Bantam Books held that the state commission’s practice of sending threatening letters created an unconstitutional “system of informal censorship.” Further, even though the commission lacked any statutory enforcement power, the high court held “that the commission deliberately set about to achieve the suppression of publications deemed ‘objectionable’ and succeeded in its aim.”
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