We hardly ever hear about the strong Anti-war speakers and writers in the mainstream news for many reasons. First, starting off with the 1917 Espionage act. The government didn't want anyone to have the ability to voice their negative opinions on what the government wanted to do. People would get put in jail or even killed for talking about their opinions on why we should not intertwine ourselves with a certain war. The Espionage Act is still alive to this day and people will get thrown in jail for this. Originally, it was meant to be solely focused on those who worked for the government, but soon enough regular citizens began to be punished for these acts as well. So, in 1918 they created the Sedition act which was the third act making it a crime to criticize the Government. Following, in 1919, Schenk, Debs, Frohwerk and Abrams, who were all Anti-war people, got thrown in jail from the Sedition Act for criticizing the Government. When Abrams case began, Holmes came out with his famous dissent for how the first amendment should be treated. This was where he came up with "the marketplace of ideas" which expressed how we should be able to have our free speech and everyones thoughts and opinions should be able to be broadcasted so that the best ideas could rise.
I believe that we barely hear about these strong anti-war voices in the mainstream news because the Government is still continuing to push this right of ours away. They are not allowed to do as much as they could back then to people who speak out about these wars but they try to make sure that they can that stays within the law. They want to keep a good image of their decisions and don't want people voicing their negative opinions. I believe that maybe the Government is treating the mainstream news not a lot, but just enough to where they're scared to talk about these people and feel a bit threatened.
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