Report Warns That Censorship Will Not Stop Terrorism

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday December 5, 2012 @05:10AM from the shill-instruction-guide dept.

concealment writes "The report evaluates the challenge of curbing online radicalization from the perspective of supply and demand. It concludes that efforts to shut down websites that could serve as incubators for would-be terrorists — going after the supply — will ultimately be self-defeating, and that 'filtering of Internet content is impractical in a free and open society.' 'Approaches aimed at restricting freedom of speech and removing content from the Internet are not only the least desirable strategies, they are also the least effective,' writes Peter Neumann, founding director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College London and the author of the report."

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Report Warns That Censorship Will Not Stop Terrorism

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