Timeline for Is a US Government order to a private media company to suppress an article/story a violation of the First Amendment?
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| Dec 6, 2022 at 5:09 | comment | added | JdeBP | I think that an answer is not complete if it doesn't mention the notion of being a "state actor", because the question did ask whether the behaviour would count as an Amendment 1 violation, and the notion of being a "state actor" is fundamental to that. | |
| Dec 3, 2022 at 3:07 | comment | added | zibadawa timmy | Publication of nuclear weapons information/secrets may be a different matter, though it's poorly tested in the courts as the government and defendants both rarely want to push it far enough to go all the way to a SCOTUS precedent (or to court at all). The prior restraint doctrine has been expected to win out, but it's just not gotten far enough to know. But the government has had at least some success, even fairly recently, in interfering with publications concerning nuclear weapons. | |
| Dec 3, 2022 at 2:54 | history | answered | user6726 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |