Censorship was possibly at its height during World War One. President Wilson’s Espionage Act and subsequent Sedition Act suspended civil liberties in 1917 and silenced critics of war. If anyone so much as questioned the morality of international bloodshed, they were subject to immediate arrest by Attorney General Mitchell Palmer. Simply for saying the country “could not afford the economic costs of sending an army to Europe,” a deaf man from Atlanta was sent to the penitentiary.
To those who say cancel culture is "at an all time high"
