Senator Lieberman calls for misguided internet censorship, but the marketplace of ideas demands that free speech flourish.
firstamendment
June 2, 2009
Senator Lieberman calls for misguided internet censorship, but the marketplace of ideas demands that free speech flourish. By Kelly Dunleavy On May 19th, Senator Joe Lieberman sent a letter to the CEO of Google, with copies to many major newspapers, demanding that Google remove videos that feature Islamic extremists, or are produced by terrorist organizations, from its video-sharing website YouTube. Worse, Lieberman hinted that if YouTube and other websites didn’t remove such videos voluntarily, he