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Call For Tech Giants To Face Taxes Over Extremist Content (bbc.com)
Internet companies should face a tax punishment for failing to deal with the threat of terrorism in the UK, security minister Ben Wallace has said. From a report: Mr Wallace said firms such as Facebook, Google and YouTube were too slow to remove radical content online, forcing the government to act instead. While tech firms were "ruthless profiteers," governments were spending millions policing the web, he added. Facebook said Mr Wallace was wrong to say it put profits before safety. YouTube said violent extremism was a "complex problem" and addressing it was a "critical challenge for us all." In an interview with the Sunday Times, Mr Wallace said tech giants were failing to help prevent the radicalisation of people online. "Because content is not taken down as quickly as they could do," he claimed, "we're having to de-radicalise people who have been radicalised. That's costing millions."
Sure it's censorship. That's the whole point of it. The big difference between many European countries and the US is that they are more open about doing censorship when deemed beneficial for society as a whole. WWII happened on their own soil, and they want to take steps to prevent it from happening again.
But most Americans appear to be for censorship as long as it doesn't affect them, and isn't called censorship. Suppressing science, suppressing medical information, suppressing sexuality, suppressing freethinkers, suppressing seditious speak, ... that is apparently fine. But suppressing hate speech is not?
True.
With all the rants about "Fascism" and "Nazis" in the US, AGAIN it's actually happening in Europe.
No, what's happening in Europe and the U.S. is the destruction of a modern, civilized society. The UK defense minister says "Internet companies should face a tax punishment for failing to deal with the threat of terrorism", but tech companies are neither the problem nor the solution.
Terrorism is a problem created entirely by the governments of the EU and US. It can never be eliminated BUT it can be removed from the EU and US so that it never harms or threatens the civilized societies of the world. All it takes is a few simple common sense actions by the civilized countries of the world.
-Admit the truth that terrorism and "radicalization" can never be eliminated, but it can be contained.
-End all immigration.
-Deport all immigrants back to whatever third world shit hole they came from and admit the truth, that they are not capable of behaving like civilized humans.
-Deport all Muslims and admit the truth, that Islam is a cancer that will destroy any country where it is allowed to exist.
-End all military action in the Middle East and Africa.
-End all trade with Muslim countries and any country that does business with Muslim countries
End of problem.
The filth of the world can continue to live their lives exactly how they wish. They can go on killing each other just as they have done for the last thousand years and the civilized societies of the world no longer have to waste time and money dealing with terrorists or having to "de-radicalize" someone.
If these simple common sense policies had been put in place 25 years ago, there would have been zero terrorist attacks in any civilized country in the last 25 years. Sadly, there are too few people with enough common sense and strength of will to actually do it.