gonna put this here as we don't have a 'history repeats itself thread'
The Sedition Act of 1918, enacted during World War I (and the height of the 1918 flu pandemic), made it a crime to "willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of the Government of the United States" or to "willfully urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of the production" of the things " ...
