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UK Gov't Plans To Censor "Extremist" Websites Via Orders To ISPs

Not content with blacklisting certain kinds of pornography, writes an anonymous reader, according to this news from The Guardian, "The UK government is to order broadband companies to block extremist websites and empower a specialist unit to identify and report content deemed too dangerous for online publication. The crime and security minister, James Brokenshire, said on Wednesday that measures for censoring extremist content would be announced shortly. The initiative is likely to be controversial, with broadband companies already warning that freedom of speech could be compromised."

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  1. Re:Well, by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 4, Informative

    When Terrorism is 'Any action that is intended to influence the government', what is extremism?

    you misquoted.

    (b) the use or threat is designed to influence the government [or an international governmental organisation][2] or to intimidate the public or a section of the public, and

    just stating the fact, not it's implications.

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  2. Re:Taleban.com by mattsqz · · Score: 3, Informative

    the wayback machine shows this as very incorrect. i did, however, manage to find a taliban.com site from 1998, which told of a move to http://ummah.net/taliban/ - which by 2000, had again moved to http://www.afghan-ie.com/ - by the 21st of april 2001, this was down as well.