Law in the Internet Society

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Legal Internet Use by Terrorists

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 In a recent microcosm of the issue, Senator Joe Lieberman demanded that YouTube remove all videos from identified terrorist organizations. YouTube responded by only removing those that were violent enough to violate its own community standards while defending the organizations’ right to post legal nonviolent material as well as the total benefit to society from a diverse range of views.
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>		I tend to agree with YouTube’s approach--filtering by content rather than by user--and believe that content should only be regulated where there is violence, or the imminent threat of some kind of violence in relation to that content.
 First, when it comes to criminal and terrorist activity, we should regulate the violence they may use to achieve their goals, rather than their beliefs alone. We do not fear people for what they believe or desire; we fear what they might do to us to achieve their goals.

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