This chapter begins with the description of a Web site, called Candyland, which offers up all kinds of useful information about hacking, drugs, phone phreaking, killing people with your bare hands, and bomb making. Makers of these devices take all responsibilty. Some of these recipes on the Candyman's site, however, are clearly designed to kill people. There are some politicians, parents, and special interest groups vociferously arguing against this kind of speech on the Net. Senator Diane Feinstein of California has introduced legislation that would make such information illegal.
Some speech is potentially harmful.
In a free society which makes no laws against religion, beliefs, and speech, all ideas are allowed to roam free and battle it out. We tolerate those who speak of hate and pass around information on how to kill, hoping that, in the end, the good ideas will win. It is about whether we carve any more exceptions out of the First Amendment. This case was not explicitly about bombs, but addressed the concept of advocacy. If the same speaker had incited the crowd by waving a gun and called for them to attack someone's house, that kind of advocacy would have been clearly held to be illegal.