Dear All,
Donald Trump please something similar to Theresa May about internet regulation.
It seems that the world powers are now promoting actions against the internet
freedem. This below piece was published by the independent.co.uk journal - see
the below.
"New international agreements should be introduced to regulate the internet in
the light of the London Bridge terror attack, Theresa May has said. The Prime
Minister said introducing new rules for cyberspace would “deprive the
extremists of their safe spaces online” and that technology firms were not
currently doing enough.
The Prime Minister made the comments outside Downing Street on Sunday morning
in the aftermath of the van and knife attack that saw seven people killed and
dozens injured.
“We cannot allow this ideology the safe space it needs to breed – yet that is
precisely what the internet, and the big companies that provide internet-based
services provide,” Ms May said.
“We need to work with allied democratic governments to reach international
agreements to regulate cyberspace to prevent the spread of extremist and
terrorism planning.”
The call was one plank in Ms May’s speech following the attack. The Prime
Minister also said Britain was too tolerant of extremism and that “pluralistic”
British values had to be established as superior.
She warned there was “a new trend in the threat we face” and that while the
three recent terror attacks in the UK were not linked by “common networks”,
they were “bound together by the single evil ideology of Islamic extremism”.
The Conservative manifesto pledges regulation of the internet, including
forcing internet providers to participate in counter-extremism drives and
making it more difficult to access pornography.
Ms May’s speech is thought to be the first time she has publicly called for
international cooperation in bringing forward more red tape to cyberspace,
however.
The intervention comes after the introduction of the Investigatory Powers Act
2016 – dubbed the “Snooper’s Charter” – which expands the powers of spying
agencies and the Government over the internet.
The Act, championed by Ms May, requires internet service providers to maintain
a list of visited websites for all internet users for a year and gives
intelligence agencies more powers to intercept online communications. Police
can access the stored browsing history without any warrant or court order.
The PM’s comments come after the third terror attack on the UK in three months.
A car and knife attack on Westminster in March left five people dead, while a
bomb attack at a concert in Manchester two weeks ago killed 22
Mr. Abdirashid Ibrahim Abdirahman
Marodijeh International University
Somaliland
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