At Tech Against Terrorism we’re gravely concerned about the terrorist use of the internet, but perhaps not for the reasons imagined. Given the increased clamour for government regulation of citizens’ online content in the UK, EU, Australia, Canada and many other jurisdictions, you might think that terrorists and violent extremists are rampaging across social media with impunity. This could not be further from the truth.
Despite appearances, over the past decade governments have done very little to define criminal thresholds for online content and to enforce existing laws; “designation lists”, whereby groups are defined as terrorist in law, are often the only legal basis available to platforms to determine what constitutes terrorist content.
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Source: Terrorists will move to where they can’t be moderated | WIRED UK