Journalists and press freedom advocates were rightly appalled last month when a single judge in small-town Mississippi ordered one newspaper to remove one allegedly defamatory editorial from its website. But now, Florida’s legislature is pushing countless news outlets across the Sunshine State to do the same thing.
Pre-emptive compliance, when you’re so scared of the fascist state you act like a fascist to not get prosecuted.
Until you do it so often you forgot how not to be a fascist.