US Congress Vows To Criminalize First Amendment in re Paris

[Ted W.]

And yet, we find that the Paris attackers did not communicate via
encrypted channels for most of their planning:

http://bit.ly/1WZFM9H
(https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151118/08474732854/after-endless-demonization-encryption-police-find-paris-attackers-coordinated-via-unencrypted-sms.shtml)

On 11/18/2015 01:58 PM, grarpamp wrote:
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/11/17/senators-want-to-give-government-access-to-encrypted-communications-to-combat-terrorism/
> 
> Senate Intelligence Committee leaders are vowing to explore ways to
> grant more government access to secure communications. Intelligence
> Committee Chair Richard Burr, R-N.C., and his counterpart, ranking
> Democrat Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., say that encrypted communications
> should be more easily accessible by the government.
> 
> 
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/congressman-to-stop-isis-lets-shut-down-websites-and-social-media/
> 
> US Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) has a plan to stop terrorists: shut down
> websites, including social media networks. Barton today asked Federal
> Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler if the commission can
> shut down websites... Barton didn't name any specific sites but said
> that "we need to do something" because of the terrorist attack in
> Paris.
> 
> 
> While criminalizing harmless Crypto and Speech, don't forget yourselves...
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_Suite_A_Cryptography
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America
> 
> Keep on rollin out that crypto fellas, more, better, faster...
> and educate your critters before it's too late.
>