“Progressive” Media Argues “Thanks To ISIS, We Have To Consider Limits To Free Speech”

Thursday, December 17, 2015
By Paul Martin

Claims that First Amendment rights “go back only to the 1960s”

Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
December 15, 2015

The so called “progressive” website Slate, offered up an article Tuesday that argues free speech in the US should be limited… because ISIS.

“Thanks to ISIS, we have to consider limits to free speech.” Slate tweeted, along with a link to the piece penned by Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School.

Posner posits that “America faces unprecedented danger from the group’s online radicalization tactics,” and therefore “The novelty of this threat calls for new thinking about limits on freedom of speech.”

Posner argues that there are thousands of “Lonely and bored” Muslim Americans who are at risk of becoming radicalized online by ISIS.

He states that it should be made a crime to access any websites that carry video, text or images posted by ISIS.

“The law would provide graduated penalties. After the first violation, a person would receive a warning letter from the government; subsequent violations would result in fines or prison sentences. The idea would be to get out the word that looking at ISIS-related websites, like looking at websites that display child pornography, is strictly forbidden.” Posner writes.

Posner argues that researchers and journalists should be exempted from the law:

“Press credentials, a track record of legitimate public commentary on blogs and elsewhere, academic affiliations, employment in a security agency, and the like would serve as adequate proof.” he writes.

Of course, at the crux of this argument is the notion that Americans can be arrested and thrown in prison for viewing websites that the government deems to be glorifying or supportive of “terrorism”.

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