Comment Re:100% Bogus premise (Score 1) 90
> three letter intelligence services, or administrations, or anything similar,
> have been prevented from telling what they know when writing a book?
That's different. Keeping secrets internally is not the same thing as preventing
political rivals from expressing their opinions.
The problem with the "free speech" argument is that it's completely totally
irrelevant. Foreign governments don't have a right to free speech in America,
and they never have had. The people who are in America, have the right to
free speech. Stopping the narrative-shaping branch of a hostile foreign
government from doing business in your county doesn't have anything to
do with whether your own people have free speech or not. It's just basic
counter-espionage procedure.
Let them publish their propaganda on their own websites, hosted in their
own country. (Which they also do, of course. Lots of them. The Global
Times is the most entertaining of the lot.) They don't have the right to
operate their narrative-shaping business over here.