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Great, another terrorist attack used to justify restricting freedom and privacy The report seems surprised that Facebook failed to hand the guy over to the aut

Great, another terrorist attack used to justify restricting freedom and privacy The report seems surprised that Facebook failed to hand the guy over to the authorities because he said he wanted to kill a soldier online. They'd be reporting half the teenagers in the world if they were forced to do so

smtddr 12y ago
Furthermore, I wonder how many threats to police officers are happening right now on facebook due to a controversial grand jury decision that happened very recently. Do we want to investigate and/or arrest all those people? ....granted, I'm sure at least one of them is real.
- msantos 12y ago
  Those people would probably be put on watch-lists and unless they are already in one of those lists, no further action would be taken. Or so this is what I gather based on the ISC report describing the MI6's monitoring of the two terrorists who killed the soldier.
msantos 12y ago
> Great, another terrorist attack used to justify restricting freedom and privacy The way things stand, I agree that there's currently a big rush in the UK to approve wider snooping laws > The report seems surprised that Facebook failed to hand the guy over to the authorities because he said he wanted to kill a soldier online. Facebook had already taken down several of his accounts because they were deemed offensive and used to spread terror stuff (videos/hate speech). The ISC report says Facebook took the content offline and didn't forward the matter to the authorities.
- hahainternet 12y ago
  > The way things stand, I agree that there's currently a big rush in the UK to approve wider snooping laws These laws have been fully rejected once and will not pass in the current government. What the heck news are you even reading if you don't know this?