> Censoring them does nothing but push them back into the shadows where their communications then become encrypted, unavailable and out of the public eye. We'r

> Censoring them does nothing but push them back into the shadows where their communications then become encrypted, unavailable and out of the public eye. We're not going to have any success fighting terrorists if we assume that they're stupid. You think ISIS is using Twitter DMs to plot terrorist attacks or something? They've successfully executed a number of attacks worldwide under the noses of some pretty smart and dedicated people, so I'm pretty sure they've already figured out slightly more secure communication channels. It's not like they'll stumble onto PGP and Tor just because they got kicked off of Twitter. > I want to know what these crazy people are thinking and planning We already know what they're planning: a fundamentalist Islamic global caliphate. Again, they are not stupid enough to tell us anything more useful than that on Twitter. > It also allows us to keep tabs on these people and who they're connected to They're using Twitter to build those connections in the first place. This is about their curbing their ability to broadcast and recruit. You can't gain mindshare from a secret, encrypted chatroom. > If we're all about free speech, that includes speech we also might not like so much. The right to free speech does not confer the additional right to airdrop political pamphlets all over New York City, nor the right to stand on someone else's front stoop and scream at passersby, nor, indeed, the right to use the Internet website Twitter dot com to broadcast ideas.