Censorship based on the State Department's FTO list is a bad idea. Thoughts incoming. lawfareblog.com/combating-terr…
The FTO list is and always has been incredibly politicized. ISIS and AQ are on the list, but so are numerous revolutionary & insurgent groups. Devoting scarce resources to censoring those groups' info seems inefficient; they're no threat to U.S. homeland security.
More importantly, though, the FTO list is explicitly the *foreign* organizations list. There are no legal mechanisms in place for blanket domestic designation as a terrorist group. Why is a longer discussion; regardless, creates an imbalance.
Disproportionate focus on foreign threats ignores domestic ones, which the FBI and others have long identified as being a larger concern, again, to U.S. homeland security. Any online policy needs to address the full spectrum of threats.
