Question

How do the Espionage and Sedition Acts have an impact today?

Answer 1

The act also made offender penalties for anybody obstructing enlistment in the armed forces or leading to insubordination or disloyalty in military or naval forces

Answer 2

They were written in an environment of wartime panic and resulted in the arrest and prosecution of more than 2,000 Americans.

The Act criminalized the publication or distribution of “information” that could harm or hinder US armed forces as well as of “false reports or false statements".