Lee Rigby: internet firms providing safe haven for terrorists, says PM
Found on The Guardian on Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Internet companies are allowing their networks to be used to plot “murder and mayhem”, David Cameron has said in response to the official inquiry into the intelligence agencies’ actions before the killing of Lee Rigby.
He demanded that internet companies live up to their social responsibilities to report potential terror threats and said there was no reason for such firms to be willing to cooperate with state agencies over child abuse but not over combatting terrorism.
There is a tiny little difference: child abuse is pretty obviously a crime, but terrorism might be anything the government does not like, although it is perfectly legal in other countries. Views might be radical, but basically "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter". You don't stop terrorists with censorship, but with education, facts and arguments.