You don't have to imagine anyone but the US government doing the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States

One need only read the original pamphlet which gave rise to the saying "Yelling fire in a crowded theater" to realize that the theater was on fire, and possibly in the middle of a nuclear meltdown too.

It's been kind of shocking to see that for the last 8 years the party which is supposedly against tyranny to side with tyranny in the name of fighting tyranny.