--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 11/29/06 1:46:18 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Curtailing terrorist websites completely is probably impossible and > probably counter- > > indicated anyway. As long as they get to publish stuff freely, you > at least know what they > > are thinking (or at least want you to think they are thinking). The > further underground > > such groups go, the harder it will be to stop them. > > The more speech you curtail, the more speech you *have* > to curtail. It's a vicious circle. > > So far, the terrorists have been remarkably successful > in forcing us to give up the freedoms they despise us > for, the very freedoms we are supposedly fighting them > in order to preserve. > > > > Driving terrorist underground, unable to communicate openly and glorify > their activities would make it harder for them to recruit new terrorists and > preach their message to impressionable minds. > Like so much of the neocon agenda, it looks good on paper but is impossible to implement. Unfortunately for them, the 1950's and J Edgar Hoover are both long gone (though the practice of some men dressing in women's clothing has persisted).
Just look at China's futile attempts to control internet access by their population. Failed- and so will any attempt at this by the US. In fact, the trend is clearly and rapidly going in the opposite direction- greater access to all forms of media, by anyone...
