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THE MESSAGE:

Libertarians and other rights advocates are dedicated to the protection of freedom of speech that is guaranteed by The Charter of Rights and Freedom in Canada and by the First Amendment in the U.S. Constitution. In today's world is it practical to avoid a reform of these tenets?

Are these people correct in the assumption that certain rights are inalienable and must apply in all cases? Certainly this has been the traditional belief in both countries: however, recent events here and around the globe have given rise to a questioning of this concept.

SARNIA, ONTARIO

A TEACHER RAPED AND MURDERED

Media reports early in the police investigation linked Tanya Bogdanovich and Michael MacGregor to an online relationship through a social networking site, FETLIFE, for people interested in bondage, dominance and submission and sadomasochism.

Several photographs of Bogdanovich and MacGregor, participating in violent sex acts, appeared on the site, They discussed a mutual obsession with rape and torture. This obsession turned into the rape and murder of Noelle Maquette, a popular teacher at St. Matthew’s Catholic school in Sarnia.

INTERNET FIRMS URGED TO LIMIT THE WORK OF ANWAR AL-AWLAKI THE AMERICAN CLERIC AND PROPAGANDIST FOR AL QAEDA,

When it comes to terrorist plots and violence in the USA, the inflammatory videos and bomb-making instructions of Anwar al-Awlaki, easily accessible on the Internet, have turned up as a powerful influence.

Four years after his death by drone the question of what can and should be done about the digital legacy of Awlaki, is foremost in many minds. Killing him, it is clear, only enhanced the appeal of his message to many admirers, who view him as a martyr.

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Pressure on Internet companies to take down his work is growing, because legal experts say the First Amendment would prohibit the government from ordering restrictions.

There is widespread frustration among counterterrorism officials and independent experts at this continuing impasse. Any possible solutions are divisive and complex, raising a tangle of issues involving technology, national security, religion and freedom of speech.

The Counter Extremism Project, called on YouTube and other platforms to permanently ban Mr. Awlaki’s material, including his early, mainstream lectures. “His work has inspired countless plots and attacks, It’s hate speech. It should come down, period. Like child porn, it should be expeditiously removed.”

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OPPOSITION AND REACTIONS

Civil libertarians oppose such measures. Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the call to remove all Awlaki videos was misguided. “Some people seem to think there’s a one-to-one relationship between watching these videos and carrying out terrorist attacks, but people watch these videos for all kinds of entirely legitimate reasons." Censoring them, he said, “would certainly make it more difficult for ordinary citizens to learn the motivations, grievances and worldview of those who call for violence against Americans.” (SERIOUSLY?)

Muslim Advocates, a civil rights group in Washington, also rejected a ban saying that YouTube should remove all material inciting violence regardless of its ideological or religious bent and not make an exception based on people’s faith.

On Thursday, in the latest case, Mr. Awlaki was named repeatedly in the criminal complaint against Enrique Marquez, the gun supplying neighbour and a U.S. citizen, of the husband and wife who killed 14 people and injured 22 in the San Bernardino shootings.

Like many others who have embraced jihad, Syed Rizwan Farook, the husband, and Mr. Marquez spent hours on You Tube listening to Mr. Awlaki’s lectures. More hours were spent poring over directions on making explosives in 'Inspire Magazine' that Awlaki helped create.

Twitter now aggressively suspends the accounts of Islamic State supporters, who for many months have used the Silicon Valley sites to get their message out.

While Awlaki’s material is found in many places on the web, perhaps the largest collection is on YouTube. With some 400 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube each minute, the company relies both on automated technology and on users to flag objectionable content, which is reviewed and sometimes removed. YouTube declared that it has “clear policies prohibiting terrorist recruitment and content intending to incite violence. But it permits “videos posted with a clear news or documentary purpose.”

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In practice, YouTube has done little to remove even Awlaki’s most provocative material. A recent search on YouTube for “Anwar al-Awlaki” produced 61,900 results, including nearly everything he recorded on audio or video in a long career. Some are explicit endorsements of attacks on the United States and on Americans, including “Call to Jihad,” which Awlaki recorded in 2010 while in hiding in Yemen. His lectures, according to the FBI, were praised by the Boston and California terrorists.

Hany Farid, a professor of computer science at Dartmouth who helped develop PhotoDNA, said it would not be difficult to design software to find images of Mr. Awlaki or samples of specific audio or video footage.

“It’s not a technical problem,” he said. “It’s a policy issue. I think the speech and privacy issues are tricky. But to say there’s nothing we can do about it is cowardice.”