Theresa May says the internet must now be regulated following London Bridge terror

[GennGreymane]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-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 allied 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 Britain was too tolerant of extremism and that “pluralistic” British values had to be established as superior.

She 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’s 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 – dubbed the “Snooper’s Charter” – which expands the powers of spying agencies and the Government over the internet.

The Act, championed by Ms May, requires internet service providers to maintain a list of visited websites for all internet users for a year and gives intelligence agencies more powers to intercept online communications. Police can access the stored browsing history without any warrant or court order.

The PM’s comments come after the third terror attack on the UK in three months. A car and knife attack on Westminster in March left five people dead, while a bomb attack at a concert in Manchester two weeks ago killed 22.

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It's odd that they'd include pornography in there.

[aviger]

It's odd that they'd include pornography in there.

because why just attack 1 pointless thing, lets add in other pointless things heh

[Masark]

It's odd that they'd include pornography in there.

Not at all. The Tories in general and May in particular have a rather consuming obsession regarding that and will utilize any potential justification to push their plan.

[Moralgy]

I wonder how much porn people who support her consume.

[Zan15]

It's odd that they'd include pornography in there.

they never pass up a chance to take away freedoms when they can use terrorism as an excuse....

[Astalnar]

More useless actions. Conservatives in name only, spineless worms unwilling to take on the responsability of solving the real problems. Lady Thatcher had more balls than the entire political class of today combined.

The problem is not the internet. The problem are the mosques.

[Shadowmelded]

Pretty brazen attempt to force through a manifesto policy. Probably won't play out well for her.

[Kalis]

It's odd that they'd include pornography in there.

The manifesto came out before the attacks, the Independent is including two separate stories in the article.

[Puri]

More surveillance won't help. No idea about the current one, but every single terrorist attack in Europe in the last 5 years have been committed by perpetrators known to the police. And especially the single person attacks have been committed without any known terrorist cell background, but just by someone who was radicallized enough by people also known to the police in person in that country.
This is no longer the highly professional Alkaida terror attacks from 10 years ago. This is (highly effective) amateur terrorism, and the only hope to reduce these kinds of attacks is identifying and finally do something against the hate preachers that radicalize the people.

[Alexeht]

I would agree with blocking extremist sites, but

making it more difficult to access pornography

do not have ANY sense at all 0.o

She will fucking lose this election because of this ...

edit:

The manifesto came out before the attacks, the Independent is including two separate stories in the article.

Oh that explain a lot. Independent being independent like always. I still do not like this since internet in UK isn't best, and if they start heavily monitoring everyone it will just became worse.

[PC2]

The reasonable part is forcing internet providers to participate when there is "terrorism planning" which directly implies an attack or violence.

The part they got wrong was generally referencing ideology. If the internet user isn't planning violent crimes then there is no threat. And no reason to add regulation.

[Serpha]

Pretty brazen attempt to force through a manifesto policy. Probably won't play out well for her.

It depends, young people will not vote for her, it's the older population that doesn't understand this will fall for this trick.
Than gain it's not like they don't already spy on us 24/7

[Deleted]

deprive the extremists of their safe spaces online

The heck did MMOC have to do with all of this? :P

[Shadowmelded]

It depends, young people will not vote for her, it's the older population that doesn't understand this will fall for this trick.
Than gain it's not like they don't already spy on us 24/7

The election won't be won or lost on this but I don't think it will play well among voters to be seen politicizing a tragedy.

[Sykol]

How about instead of policing the internet, you police your immigration policies?

[Manabomb]

I'd only be in agreement with regulation if that also meant breaking up ISP monopolies and granting the entire world a standard, free access internet.

Until those things can happen and greed stops ruining the industry, the regulations May is talking about will be less than useless.

[Arganis]

Or you know they could deport those fuckers instead of doing nothing for the sake of political correctness when 90% of the time these people are already under surveillance before they act out.

[Manabomb]

How about instead of policing the internet, you police your immigration policies?

You act like people, even foreigners, don't have the capacity as humans to lie.

Kind of hard to police he said she said statements when it comes to immigration and refugee polices. That and the numbers are well less than 1%.

[Sharein]

I assume they will crack down hard on people who do not support the usual MSM opinions. Appeasement must sein.