If you attempt to control the interweb you will drive terrorists to a much harder to view “dark” web – PB/TK
Are tech companies providing “material support” to terrorists? – By CBS News / June 5 2017
After Saturday’s deadly London terror attack, British Prime Minister Theresa May said technology companies need to do more to stop terrorists from working together online.
“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,” May said Sunday. “We need to work with allied democratic governments to reach international agreements that regulate cyberspace to prevent the spread of extremism and terrorism planning.”
CBS News senior national security analyst Fran Townsend, who was President George W. Bush’s homeland security adviser, agreed, calling cyberspace the “single most important component right now” in addressing terror.
“Let’s remember, using the Telegram channel, the encrypting messaging application, ISIS called for Ramadan attacks using cars, knives and guns. And we’ve seen this incredible rise in these Ramadan attacks right now. And so I think what Theresa May is trying say is we need to battle the cyberspace just as you would the physical space – air, sea, land. We need to approach it in that way to confront them, deny them the use of the internet,” Townsend said Monday on “CBS This Morning”
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