Facebook can shut down the dissemination
of terrorist propaganda and child pornography, and how it decides to control speech can also affect elections, suppress political opposition, or amplify authoritarian governments.
Not exact matches
Although there are millions
of users posting valuable content on the social network, there are also countless accounts that are spam, bots, or worse — trolls who harass others or
terrorists who use the platform to spread their
propaganda.
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent Dominic Casciani Tweeted this video, which cuts between the eyes
of the masked
terrorist shown in the ISIS
propaganda and Abu Rumaysah, a British Citizen who fled to Syria after being released on bail while under investigation for allegedly encouraging terrorism.
Influenced by advisors whose white nationalists views are well known, the president has waged a
propaganda war against ethnic and religious minorities, stoking fear and hate by lying about crime rates,
terrorist attacks, and voter fraud and by issuing executive orders that have already hurt many thousands
of people around the world, including desperate refugee families.
«Whilst there is still no evidence
of further threats, you'll understand our determination is to find out if either he acted totally alone, inspired perhaps by
terrorist propaganda, or if others have encouraged, supported or directed him.
«We hope that those that have been mounting
propaganda on behalf
of IMN, including international contractors like Amnesty International, would now accept the position stated in the document that the Nigerian Army abided by its Rules
of Engagement in dealing with the
terrorist organization.»
The situation was unnecessarily blown beyond proportion to give
terrorists the type
of propaganda they desired.
The committee said social media platforms had become the «vehicle
of choice» for
terrorist recruitment and
propaganda.
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Office drone Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) dreams
of escaping his dreary life in an authoritarian police state filled with
propaganda and
terrorist attacks, but the never - ending stream
of forms and paperwork — among other things — is keeping him down.
CHILDREN
OF MEN Mon, June 5, 7:00 p.m.; Wed, June 7, 9:00 p.m. «The world has collapsed; only Britain soldiers on,» blares the TV
propaganda in 2027 London, a crumbling city host to riot - squad brutality,
terrorist bomb attacks and immigrant concentration camps.
Instead
of quickly releasing the drone's missiles and taking out the
terrorists, the fate
of that one little girl, whom they can see all too clearly, becomes a sticking point as issues
of ethics,
propaganda, and legalities are debated among people whose world views that don't necessarily mesh with one another.
If the
terrorists and the girl are killed, the West could face a
propaganda defeat, as the other side would drum up rage among the inhabitants
of Nairobi for the killing
of this innocent.
Five men who became «intoxicated» by
terrorist propaganda have had their convictions quashed after the Court
of Appeal ruled there was not enough evidence to prove they meant to act on the extremist material in their possession.
We already have laws that penalize real
terrorist propaganda — and at least one person is in jail because
of them.
The legislation raises a plethora
of issues and significantly alters the security landscape: It gives the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) powers beyond intelligence gathering (to actively target threats and derail plots); creates new offences (criminalizing «
terrorist propaganda» and the «promotion
of terror»); lowers the legal threshold to trigger detention to those who may carry out an offence from the existing standard
of will carry out to may carry out; extends preventive detention for «suspected»
terrorists from three days to seven days (inconsistent with the constitutional presumption
of innocence); legally entrenches a no fly list; and grants government agencies explicit authority to share private information with domestic and foreign entities.
With the surge
of illegal content online, including online
terrorist propaganda and xenophobic and racist speech inciting violence and hatred, online platforms carry an increasing societal responsibility in terms
of protecting users and society at large and preventing criminals from exploiting the online space.
However the executive body appears to be seeking to bundle up various types
of «illegal» content into the same problem bucket — and quickly drew criticism it risks encouraging algorithmic censorship by seeking to create one set
of rules to apply to copyrighted content and
terrorist propaganda, for example.
For its latest reporting period, ending December 2017, Twitter says 93 %
of the accounts were flagged by its internal tech tools — with 74 %
of those also suspended before their first tweet, i.e. before they'd been able to spread any
terrorist propaganda.
Authorities had blocked access to some channels on encrypted messaging service Telegram last year, saying it had several forums that were «full
of radical and
terrorist propaganda».
A series
of steps taken to remove
terrorist propaganda more quickly, and tamp down on the spread
of fake news, have produced some encouraging results.