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>starts to remove particularly egregious examples of online hate websites Hate speech is free speech in the US, though. The government can only get involved i
by brobinson 6y ago
>starts to remove particularly egregious examples of online hate websites
Hate speech is free speech in the US, though. The government can only get involved if there's incitement of "imminent lawless action". I could see private companies trying to stomp out the sites (refuse to host them, etc.), but the government can't do anything except in the case I mentioned earlier.
- kart23 6y agothe government seizes domains all the time. The idea of them shutting down websites because of terrorism isn't new. 'National Security' overrides free speech in the 21st century. The facilitating crimes angle can easily be used as well against a rowdy online community. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-seizes-domain-names-used-foreign-terrorist-organization https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-seizes-domain-n... https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/united-states-seizes-27-additional-domain-names-used-iran-s-islamic-revolutionary-guard https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/united-states-seizes-27... https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/california-operators-myredbookcom-website-arrested-facilitating-prostitution-and-money https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/california-operators-my...
- brobinson 6y agoOP is talking about stuff like stormfront.org which is still up after like 20+ years. Your examples are terrorism and prostitution/money laundering. The federal government can't do anything about sites like stormfront.