However, discussion of FARA law as it developed and was used in the United States has a history that is forgotten but terribly important. You can read about that history in a Substack article I recently wrote, or in a much earlier Medium.com article. Briefly, your readers, and U.S. citizens as a whole, should know that for much of the Cold War, FARA was illegally invoked in a mail seizure campaign by the U.S. Post Office, Customs Dept., and Dept. of Justice, which for well over a decade seized and destroyed millions of pieces of third class mail (books, academic journals, magazines, audio media, etc.) coming from "Iron Curtain" countries. It was the largest or among the largest censorship programs ever instituted in the U.S., but its existence has been all but erased from modern discourse.
Very interesting article with some good points!
However, discussion of FARA law as it developed and was used in the United States has a history that is forgotten but terribly important. You can read about that history in a Substack article I recently wrote, or in a much earlier Medium.com article. Briefly, your readers, and U.S. citizens as a whole, should know that for much of the Cold War, FARA was illegally invoked in a mail seizure campaign by the U.S. Post Office, Customs Dept., and Dept. of Justice, which for well over a decade seized and destroyed millions of pieces of third class mail (books, academic journals, magazines, audio media, etc.) coming from "Iron Curtain" countries. It was the largest or among the largest censorship programs ever instituted in the U.S., but its existence has been all but erased from modern discourse.
Please see https://kayej.substack.com/p/the-biggest-mail-censorship-program, or https://jeff-kaye.medium.com/censored-north-korea-accused-u-s-of-working-with-unit-731-war-criminals-on-bw-attacks-d7fd819ed8b7?sk=e95d8a3128be4b8a70fca654fb6b421f
Отличие ФАРА от рашкинских педозаконов заключается в том, что по ним невозможно посадить кого угодно.