... to. This legislation allowed the President to deem certain photographs, sketches, or maps of military bases as security risks, in addition to providing the President with "the authority to define which types of military information needed security protection" (Sweeney). Roosevelt made the Office of Censorship on December 19, 1941 with Executive Order 8985. President Lincoln stated that the first ... , the printing press was the most popular form of communication. This censorship was also used in World War I. At the end of World War II censorship was used to target Communism. This era was...

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