We ought to do it. We can do it, the backbone carriers are mostly American. We furnish a list of terrorist URL's to the backbone carriers, and presto, they go into the bit bucket for good. The terrorists will undoubtedly open new ones, but we can make those go into the bit bucket too. And their audiences, who just pop a URL into their browsers will be confused when they get the 404 error message after the site got blackholed. It will take time for the audience to discover the new URLs and by which time we can discover them too and make the new ones go away.
Everyone agrees that a lot of Islamic terrorists get started, get instructed, and get encouraged over the internet. For instance we know that Anwar Al Awlaki set up the shoe bomber, and engaged in emails with Major Hassan, the Ft Hood shooter. Awlaki got so bad that the weak kneed Obama administration summoned up a little resolve and snuffed Awlaki in a drone strike. If we can snuff them from the air, surely we can turn off their internet access.
Every other media, print newspapers, radio, TV, movies, books, music, engage in censorship. There are some things they simply will not show. Examples: death threats, calls to violence, pornography, wardrobe malfunctions, overly raunchy lyrics, and hate speech. Only the internet gets away scot free. With Islamic terrorist racking up more and more kills (149 kills just this Ramadan) we need to shut down their internet access.
We need to do this right, and prevent censorship of other perfectly legitimate internet activities. Probably a small board of respected and impartial people ought to OK each request to blackhole a URL for being an Islamic terror site. We have done a fairly good job at snuffing out spammers, no reason why we should not do the same to Islamic terrorists.
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