You can argue that, but other people argue the other side. To my knowledge it hasn't been firmly tested in a US court yet. There are supreme court precedents f

You can argue that, but other people argue the other side. To my knowledge it hasn't been firmly tested in a US court yet. There are supreme court precedents finding that the first amendment prohibits the government from compelling speech, which is the legal theory for why warrant canaries are not equivalent to directly disclosing the NSL's existence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary