http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-internet-regulated-london-bridge-terror-attack-google-facebook-whatsapp-borough-security-a7771896.html

New international agreements should be introduced to regulate the internet in the light of the London Bridge terror attack, Theresa May has said.

The Prime Minister said introducing new rules for cyberspace would “deprive the extremists of their safe spaces online” and that technology firms were not currently doing enough.

The Prime Minister made the comments outside Downing Street on Sunday morning in the aftermath of the van and knife attack that saw seven people killed and dozens injured.

"We cannot allow this ideology the safe space it needs to breed - yet that is precisely what the internet, and the big companies that provide internet-based services provide,” Ms May said.

“We need to work with allies democratic governments to reach international agreements to regulate cyberspace to prevent the spread of extremist and terrorism planning.

The call was one plank in Ms May's speech following the attack. The Prime Minister also said Britian was too tolerant of extremism and that "pluralistic" British values had to be established as superior.

The PM warned there was "a new trend in the threat we face" and that while the three recent terror attacks in the UK were not linked by "common networks", they were "bound together by the single evil ideology of Islamic extremism".

The Conservative manifesto pledges regulation of the internet, including forcing internet providers to participate in counter-extremism drives and making it more difficult to access pornography.

Ms May speech is thought to be the first time she has publicly called for international cooperation in bringing forward more red tape to cyberspace, however.

The intervention comes after the introduction of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 – the so-called 'Snooper's Charter' – which expands the powers of spying agencies and the Government over the internet.

Quote from: Big Boss on June 04, 2017, 06:31:04 AM

Making it more difficult to access pornography.

Maybe I'm missing something, but how does this fight extremism?

Exactly my thoughts.


Also, so much for the parties agreeing to stop campaigning for today. Theresa May using a tragedy to push one of her manifesto policies in a basic bitch "something must be done" speech.

but they already mass collect data how does even more spy laws help?

I would imagine the lack of regulation allows better surveillance of terrorist groups, and kneejerk authoritarianism is never the answer.

Why is UKIP not the one leading Britain?

Because they're led by a colossal retard.

Quote from: Karjala takaisin on June 04, 2017, 10:27:04 AM

Why is UKIP not the one leading Britain?

Because they're led by a colossal retard.

I thought Nigel Farage was the smartest European politician.

Heard about this a couple of weeks ago. It's honestly pretty worrying to see. The internet is becoming less and less free. Censorship is starting to overpower freedom of expression.

Governments are even beginning to persecute more and more people for expressing themselves on the web under the guise of fighting hate speech and extremism.

Just heard a story about a man in Switzerland who was fined for liking posts on Facebook that were deemed offensive to a certain individual.

Just another step closer to the nanny state.

can governments just like stop fucking with the Internet please

why can't old people just hurry up and die before they ruin it permanently