The leading presidential candidates on both the Democratic and Republican side can agree on one issue: freedom of speech on the internet isn’t that big of a deal. They basically think terrorism means giving up some fundamental rights. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola, hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

“Yesterday, we wrote about Hillary Clinton’s absolutely terrible plan for undermining both encryption and free speech on the internet as a way to “deal” with ISIS. I left out the worst quote of all that she stated in the process, mockingly:

“You’re going to hear all of the usual complaints, you know, freedom of speech, et cetera…”

Free speech et cetera? That’s handwaving it away. You can see the whole clip here, of the leading Democratic Presidential candidate who will almost certainly win the nomination…

Her full statement:

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.

Shut off their means of communicating? These tools are tools that everyone uses — and, in fact, which Hillary Clinton herself did a tremendous amount of (good) work helping to spread around the globe as Secretary of State. And now she’s trying to cut it all off?”*

Read more here: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151207/21225233018/two-leading-presidential-candidates-clinton-trump-both-mocked-free-speech-internet.shtml