talk about guilt by association

"Given the interconnected nature of the World Wide Web (they don't call it a "web" for nothing), just about any site with hyperlinks 'could eventually access' something sinister. Al-Hussayen's trial ... illustrates the difficulty of deciding when "links to terrorism" should be treated as a crime." Jacob Sullum, Links to Terrorism (Build a Web site, go to jail), reasononline [via].

Can Being A Webmaster Be A Crime?

Update (6/10/04): Enabling Free Speech is Not a Crime