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Britain Wants Tech Firms to Tackle Extremism (fortune.com)

Posted by msmash on from the take-a-stand dept.

Britain will tell Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft on Thursday to do more to stop extremists posting content on their platforms and using encrypted messaging services to plan attacks. From a report: Home Secretary Amber Rudd said on Sunday tech companies should stop offering a "secret place for terrorists to communicate," after British parliament attacker Khalid Masood was widely reported to have sent encrypted messages moments before he killed four people last week. Rudd has summoned the Internet companies to a meeting to urge them to do more to block extremist content from platforms like Facebook and Google's YouTube, but a government spokesman said encryption was also on the agenda. "The message is the government thinks there is more they can do in relation to taking down extremist and hate material and that is what they are going to be talking about this afternoon," the prime minister's spokesman said on Thursday.

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  1. Minutes from the Meeting by JonnyCalcutta · · Score: 5, Funny

    Amber Rudd: We need you to do more to combat extremists. How about you use some of those tools from CSI? And also give us back doors into your services.
    Google: Sure, no problem
    Facebook: OK
    Twitter: What ever you say
    MS: Why not

    outside the meeting

    Google: So you guys going to do anything?
    MS: haha, fuck that.
    Twitter: Yeh. Stupid cow, what the fuck was she talking about?
    Facebook: Pub?

  2. Who decides who is a terrorist? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who defines the "Terrorist"?

    Is it just suicide bombers and folks assaulting civilians with deadly weapons?

    Or is it anyone who opposes the policies and or people running their local and or national governments?

  3. Why always these fake arguments? by admin7087 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He sent encrypted messages moments before he killed four people last week, so how would unencrypted communication have prevented this? That's right, not at all, of course. Why can't they just state the obvious, that they are authoritarians who want to fully survey everyone in realtime and therefore encryption should be banned? Do voters in the UK reward hypocrisy?