Summary Of Let's Shut Them Down

In the essay “Let’s Shut Them Down’ by Michael Crowley he argues about web technology and the first amendment begin used wrongly. Crowley used 69-year-old New York citizen John Young as a perfect example using the web in an irresponsible way. Young believed that if people knew the government secrets they would be safer. He would post information on his website of government officials making the information available to anyone to see. As many government official wanted to shut the sites downs, people like Young who ran them were protected because the first amendment giving them the right of freedom of speech, which was clearly taken out of control. Some co-anti websites such as Young were getting out of control such as were government official
begin threaten. A democratic member of congress Anthony Weiner had addressee the problem in a press conference. Weiner stated “Free speech does not include the ability to terrorize offices” so he then proposed a bill were government official information would be illegal to discloser.

According to Michael’s essay, the first amendment is the big cause behind anti-websites. Even though the first amendment is place to help the citizens address their issues or their beliefs, I believe that it can became a problem to citizens and government officials. Before passing the amendment I would of thought the would have sit restriction for it because before a law or bill is passed the government go through trails to found out if it will cause commotion or not, just like a recycling cycle. They should have been specific on what our freedom of speech should have really been. The amendments do have their down falls on government officials but I believe as a United States citizen it is the governments fought that things like this are taken out of control.