Session #114 · 2015–17

Speech #1140069171

As Judge POE has very ably argued. the administration could be stopping proextremists social media in much the same way that we now stop online child pornography. ISIS and other foreign terrorist organizations do not have free speech rights under American law. Now. we were all shocked. as you heard today. that our very own Department of Homeland Security maintained a policy that prevented the screening of visa applicants social media accounts because we worried about bad public relations. we worried about intrusions into their privacy. even though social media posts. by their very definition. are exactly that. reaching out to the public through social manners. meaning through public ways. Every proISIS post or any post by any other foreign terrorist organization that uses Facebook. YouTube. or Twitter. every one that we are able to take down before action is being taken is one less chance for these extremists to recruit and spread their vicious propaganda. and the administration needs to start getting serious about stopping it.
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Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Security threat Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
FL
Gender
F
Date
2015-12-15
Speech ID
1140069171
Paragraph
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