Unconstitutional gag rules undermine press freedom

Elon Musk, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and my employer, Freedom of the Press Foundation, don’t have much in common. We recently called Musk “the world’s biggest hypocrite on free speech” and Cotton “a man with so much irrational hatred for the free press that he must have something awful to hide from it.”

We stand by both assessments, yet we all agree that the Securities Exchange Commission’s “gag rule” is an egregious violation of the First Amendment.

You might ask, how can...