This has not gotten much press, but the latest statements from Hillary Clinton are very troubling — from her speech Sunday at the Brookings Institution:
“We’re going to have to have more support from our friends in the technology world to deny online space. Just as we have to destroy [ISIS’s] would-be caliphate, we have to deny them online space,”
“And this is complicated. You’re going to hear all of the usual complaints, you know, freedom of speech, et cetera. But if we truly are in a war against terrorism and we are truly looking for ways to shut off their funding, shut off the flow of foreign fighters, then we’ve got to shut off their means of communicating. It’s more complicated with some of what they do on encrypted apps, and I’m well aware of that, and that requires even more thinking about how to do it.”
https://theintercept.com/2015/12/07/obama-hints-at-renewed-pressure-on-encryption-clinton-waves-off-first-amendment/
I believe Hillary Clinton’s threats of censorship, to our rights of freedom of speech, and to our right to privacy of personal communications are just not acceptable. Her statements use the typically Republican excuse that we are “in a war” (um, somehow it seems we are always “in a war”). Our basic Constitutional rights and common democratic freedoms do not have exception for fear of terrorists.