No, we haven't. We just didn't lose all the freedom of expression yet. But if we stay silent while the federal government "gently leans" on every major venue of

No, we haven't. We just didn't lose all the freedom of expression yet. But if we stay silent while the federal government "gently leans" on every major venue of discussion to exclude dissenting voices and everybody who really disagrees with the government - then when the government decides the time has come to be less gentle, and eliminate with force what they couldn't eliminate with covert pressure - the battle would be much, much harder. People in the US have a good position in the fight for their freedoms. If they give it up because "we haven't lost all our freedoms yet, just a little bit of them" then when the bit becomes bigger the position would be much worse - because we assented to the smaller infringements and gave up our good position. Tyranny rarely starts with take-all power grab. It's usually small, "common sense" little things, that establish the basis for more and more power grabs, until the framework is ready for the final strike. This is how it happened in Germany, this is how it happened more recently in Russia. One day you wake up and discover that one of those "extremists", "foreign agents" and "domestic terrorists" that you and everybody else agreed need to be suppressed for the common good - is you. How could that happen?!