Europol's online censorship unit is haphazard and unaccountable says NGO
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/europol-iru-extremist-content-censorship-policing/
However AccessNow a global digital rights organisation said
Europe's approach to dealing with online extremism is
"haphazard, alarming, tone-deaf, and entirely
counter-productive." According to AccessNow, "the IRU is
outside the rule of law on several grounds. First, illegal
content is just that--illegal. If law enforcement encounters
illegal activity, be it online or off, it is expected to
proceed in dealing with that in a legal, rights-respecting
manner. "Second, relegating dealing with this illegal content
to a third private party, and leaving analysis and prosecution
to their discretion, is both not just lazy--but extremely
dangerous. Third, illegal content, if truly illegal, needs to
be dealt with that way: with a court order and subsequent
removal. The IRU's blatant circumvention of the rule of law is
in direct violation of international human rights standards."
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