Hold on to your rights, UK.
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.
Come the early hours of Friday morning what she says, hopefully, won’t matter anymore mate…
(That’s not to say the tech companies can’t do more - indeed they can - but I didn’t any calls on banning books or libraries (though she is doing here best to close down as many as she can. Nor do I see her calling for a ban on selling arms to countries which fund terrorism - though she is suppressing reports that links that very thing)
‘‘Blame the internet’ is just not a good enough response, Theresa May’…
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/04/internet-theresa-may-cyberspace-london-bridge
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‘London attack: Tech firms fight back in extremism row’…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40149649
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‘Theresa May’s plan for internet regulation could make life easier for terrorists, experts warn’…