What is the Espionage and Censorship Act of 1917 and how do the people at Area 51 use it?

The 1917 Espionage Act forbade the publication of any reports that could be construed as aiding the enemy. The Trading With the Enemy Act gave Wilson the power to censor the foreign language press in the United States and all international communications. Reports from the front were strictly censored and often blocked entirely. In 1918 amendments to the Espionage Act (popularly known as the Sedition Act) gave the government of course had the power to control both written and verbal communications; the government did not have to prove that the communications directly aided the enemy. Area 51 was a testing site that is located in the nevada desert where there was a lot of testing going on that we were not told about they used this act to keep us uninformed and to keep the press from releasing things we were not supposed to know i guess in a way it may have reduced panic among people during that time and it helped avoid alot of unwanted chaos but at the same time we had a right to know