An article at The Truth About Guns discusses the federal prosecution of a YouTuber going under the nom-de-plume "Dugan Ashley" in part because Ashley published videos on how to make explosives and some terrorist supposedly used them (although even that is questionable) to make an explosive device that failed to explode. There is, of course, no evidence that Ashley knew the terrorist or had ever directly communicated with him. As the author of the article points out, the issue here is: "Can the government treat publicly posted technical videos as a felony because a terrorist later downloaded them?"
So the government is now going to say what we can and can't say? If some assassin learned a bit about shooting from a YouTube video or article, is that YouTuber going to face prosecution? What if our hypothetical assassin attended a shooting class? Is the instructor now criminally liable? Because that is where a case like this leads should the government prevail.
And let's be honest. The whole purpose of this prosecution is to chill speech. It is the inevitable result of living in police state.
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