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Web to have "Terror Watch" team...
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:17 pm
by farad
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4360727.stm
"Five European governments are setting up a hi-tech team to monitor how terrorists and criminals use the net. The group will make recommendations on shutting down websites that break terrorism laws. "
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:24 pm
by Survivor
This place is going down.
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:26 pm
by Fender
The terrorists have already won.
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:56 pm
by phantasmagoria
bomb terrorist anthrax chemical weapons of mas destruction al qaeda bin laden assasinate
Re: Web to have "Terror Watch" team...
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:02 pm
by The HavoX
farad wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4360727.stm
"Five European governments are setting up a hi-tech team to monitor how terrorists and criminals use the net. The group will make recommendations on shutting down websites that break terrorism laws. "
don't they have a clue what freedom of speech means?
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:04 pm
by Survivor
Hmm, read somewhere about germany wanting to record all internet traffic for one year to localize terrorists or something. Maybe it's the same thing
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:05 am
by eepberries
Uh. What exactly are these "terrorism laws" in which they speak of?
Re: Web to have "Terror Watch" team...
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:15 am
by tnf
The HavoX wrote:farad wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4360727.stm
"Five European governments are setting up a hi-tech team to monitor how terrorists and criminals use the net. The group will make recommendations on shutting down websites that break terrorism laws. "
don't they have a clue what freedom of speech means?
Freedom of speech isn't guaranteed in all countries.
Furthermore, it has been explained again and again in courts of law that there are certain types of "speech" not protected by aforementioned freedom.
So, yes, they probably do have a clue what it means. But that doesn't mean they will, necessarily respect it...the problem is that this will probably target more than just terror groups, and will likely have an impact on people who are not associated with terror.