The University of Chicago law professor appears to have an inexhaustible supply of rationalizations for why free expression must be policed by a benevolent government entity, one that will always share the same values and sensibilities deemed righteous by himself.

In Slate, Posner writes that the "unprecedented threat" of ISIS using the internet to propagandize and recruit "calls for new thinking about limits on freedom of speech." His reasoning for for the abandonment of one of civilization's most sacred values and the enemy of despots and psychotic religious zealots worldwide? A New York Times profile on Ali Amin, a 17 year-old Virginia kid who "exchanged messages with other supporters and members" of ISIS. Though Amin was convicted of providing material support for terrorism, he never committed any acts of violence. He merely just drove an ISIS recruit to the airport and offered advice on how to transfer funds.