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President Adams signs a bill that makes it illegal to criticize a government official without backing it up in court, censoring all his critics.
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Fanny Hill, a novel by John Cleveland (1748), is outlawed in a Massachusetts court for it's sexual material. The book remains banned until 1966 when the Supreme Court overturns the ban.
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Anthony Comstock, head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, successfully campaigns for a federal law that allowed police to search mail without a warrant for obscene material.
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