[Romulus]

True in theory.

This, to be honest, is where I stopped reading. What does it even mean? "In theory", as opposed to "in practice"? What kind of truth is that? If something differs between theory and practice, it's not a matter of truth, but of utility, and we have abandoned the argument that truth is indispensible, in favor of a hard-eyed reckoning of how much truth we will tolerate. I will not join you on that slippery slope.

[Mia T]

True in theory.--me

This, to be honest, is where I stopped reading. What does it even mean?...--Romulus

That may be the problem.
If you read the rest of the argument, maybe you would have seen where I was going.

Walter Lippmann, the 20th-century American columnist, wrote, "A free press is not a privilege, but an organic necessity in a great society." True in theory. True even in Lippmann's quaint mid-20th-century America, perhaps. But patently false in this postmodern era of the bubbas and the Pinches.

[Sic Luceat Lux]

Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information . . . concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United States...
. . . shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both [emphasis added].

In addition, Shut down the N Y Times. - ["emphasis added"]