November 14, 2007

Britain Cracking Down on Terrorist Propaganda

Lord, if I have to read one more time about how "difficult" or "impossible" it is to take down terrorist websites, I swear I'm going to bust a nut!

Seriously, it's neither difficult nor impossible. In fact, its easy.

That is, it's easy when webhosts cooperate. So a law demanding that enemy propaganda be taken off the web would sure go a long way in inducing uncooperative webhosts to, well, f*cking cooperate!

The goal in the counter-online jihad is not to eliminate the jihadis altogether. That is impossible.

But so what? We're also never going to get rid of child porn on the web completely.

The goal is not to eliminate the cyber jihadis, the goal is to make it difficult for them to operate. To drive them further underground. To make it more difficult for their propaganda to be spread and consumed.

Good luck to Gordon Brown, I hope he gets this past the pinheads in his own party. AP:

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown wants Internet companies to help stifle online terrorist propaganda, he told lawmakers Wednesday, as officials say they plan to meet leading service providers to find ways of putting a lid on extremist content.

But the providers argue they already do all they can to fight illegal terrorist material online, and experts say even powerful filters cannot block determined users from getting their message out.

"Fundamentally, it's a losing proposition," said Ian Brown, a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, noting that even countries such as China and Myanmar have had trouble with their online censorship efforts.....

Although the removal of child pornography is relatively uncontroversial, service providers have expressed unhappiness at having to shut down their customers' sites over, for example, allegations of libel, where guilt is difficult to determine at a glance. They are unlikely to welcome similar demands over material that allegedly glorifies terrorism.

"Allegedly" glorifies terrorism???

Earth to idiots: if al Qaeda produced the f*cking video, it's a good f*cking bet that it f*cking "glorifies terrorism".

F*cking morons.

Hat tip: Ace

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 05:54 PM | |