John and Scott have been properly all over the egregious Margaret Brennan and her cheerleading for censorship on CBS News. I’ll merely add a small detail from H.L.A. Hart’s famous 1958 Harvard Law Review article on “Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals.” This from Hart:
In 1944 a woman, wishing to be rid of her husband, denounced him to the authorities for insulting remarks he had made about Hitler while home on leave from the German army. The wife was under no legal duty to report his acts, though what he had said was apparently in violation of statutes making it illegal to make statements detrimental to the government of the Third Reich or to impair by any means the military defense of the German people. The husband was arrested and sentenced to death, apparently pursuant to these statutes, though he was not executed but was sent to the front.
[Emphasis added, for the slow-witted at CBS News.]
You can read a much longer meditation on the whole matter over at my “Political Questions” Substack.
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