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ADL wants to re-define internet free speech as “homegrown terrorism.” An effort to do this was H.R.1955, designed to set up a federal commission to “eradicate” the “cyber-terrorism” which this bill alleges “streams” from the internet. This primarily alludes to anti-Zionist alternative internet talk radio. The federal commission it mandates, if approved by Congress and the President, will construe politically incorrect speech on the internet as words that hurt, i.e., “verbal violence.” H.R. 1955 says this speech incites extremists to “radicalization,” i.e., acts of violence. Ultimately, as in Canada, such expression, in order to be prosecuted, need only be thought “likely” to cause intimidation of members of federally protected groups. Continue reading →