--- 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.
They'd still find ways to do it, but they'd be so secretive we wouldn't know what they're up to without curtailing even *more* of our freedoms.
