**The Latest:**
> [Government Enlists Tech Giants to Fight ISIS Messaging](http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/24/politics/justice-department-apple-fbi-isis-san-bernardino/) (February 25, 2016) – CNN
> [Did Congress Immunize Twitter Against Lawsuits for Supporting ISIS?](https://www.lawfareblog.com/did-congress-immunize-twitter-against-lawsuits-supporting-isis) (January 22, 2016) ; also (i) [Tweeting Terrorists, Part I: Don’t Look Now But a Lot of Terrorist Groups are Using Twitter](https://www.lawfareblog.com/tweeting-terrorists-part-i-dont-look-now-lot-terrorist-groups-are-using-twitter), (ii) [Part II: Does it Violate the Law for Twitter to Let Terrorist Groups Have Accounts?](https://www.lawfareblog.com/tweeting-terrorists-part-ii-does-it-violate-law-twitter-let-terrorist-groups-have-accounts) and (iii) [Part III: How Would Twitter Defend Itself Against a Material Support Prosecution?](https://www.lawfareblog.com/tweeting-terrorists-part-iii-how-would-twitter-defend-itself-against-material-support-prosecution) (February 14, 2016) – Zoe Bedell and Benjamin Wittes at LawFare
> [Can Twitter Materially Support ISIS While Actively Working to Defeat It?](https://www.lawfareblog.com/can-twitter-materially-support-isis-while-actively-working-defeat-it) (February 19, 2016) – J.M. Berger at LawFare
**Previously – Law Professors Propose Regulating Dangerous Speech:**
Though apparently favored by law professors Eric Posner (University of Chicago) and Cass Sunstein (Harvard), a balancing test for first amendment review of laws targeting “dangerous speech” (that does not otherwise pose a clear and present danger) seems like both an overreaction and a misguided idea:
> [ISIS Gives Us No Choice but to Consider Limits on Speech](http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2015/12/isis_s_online_radicalization_efforts_present_an_unprecedented_danger.single.html) – Law professor Eric Posner at Slate
> [Islamic State’s Challenge to Free Speech](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-23/islamic-state-s-challenge-to-free-speech) – Law professor Cass Sunstein at BloombergView
**Counterpoint:**
[ISIS, Fear, and the Freedom of Speech](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-r-stone/isis-fear-and-the-freedom_b_8864050.html) – Geoffrey Stone
**News Report:**
[ISIS Influence on Web Prompts Second Thoughts on First Amendment](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/us/isis-influence-on-web-prompts-second-thoughts-on-first-amendment.html?_r=0) – New York Times
**See also:**
Senator Feinstein’s “Requiring Reporting of Online Terrorist Activity Act” ([pdf](http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=files.serve&File_id=9BDFE0CA-FB12-4BEB-B64D-DC9239D93070); 3 pages)
[White House Seeks to Enlist Silicon Valley to ‘Disrupt Radicalization’](http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/07/white-house-social-media-terrorism-meeting-facebook-apple-youtube-) – Guardian
[Lawmakers Want Social Media Companies to Report Terrorists](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/lawmakers-want-social-media-companies-to-report-terrorists/2015/12/08/379f9012-9df7-11e5-9ad2-568d814bbf3b_story.html) – Washington Post
[The White House Asked Social Media Companies to Look for Terrorists. Here’s Why They’d #Fail](https://theintercept.com/2016/01/20/the-white-house-asked-social-media-companies-to-look-for-terrorists-heres-why-theyd-fail/) – Jenna McLaughlin at The Intercept
[How a ‘Digital Surge’ Can Help Beat Islamic State](http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1215-digital-war-on-isis-20151215-story.html) – Jared Cohen (founder and director of Google Ideas and advisor to the executive chairman of Alphabet Inc.) op-ed in the Los Angeles Times
[Google’s Chairman Wants Algorithms to Censor the Internet for Hate Speech](http://qz.com/568580/googles-chairman-wants-algorithms-to-censor-the-internet-for-hate-speech/) – Quartz, reacting to Eric Schmidt’s New York Times op-ed: [Eric Schmidt on How to Build a Better Web](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/07/opinion/eric-schmidt-on-how-to-build-a-better-web.html?_r=1)
[Terrorists Mock Bids to End Use of Social Media](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/technology/terrorists-mock-bids-to-end-use-of-social-media.html?_r=0) – New York Times
**And in Europe:**
[Criminalize Websites that Refuse to Delete Terrorist Content, say MEPs](http://www.cio.com/article/3008815/criminalize-websites-that-refuse-to-delete-terrorist-content-say-meps.html) – CIO