{"id":74729,"date":"2017-06-10T14:09:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T18:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74729"},"modified":"2017-06-10T14:13:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T18:13:09","slug":"theresa-may-says-the-internet-must-now-be-regulated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74729","title":{"rendered":"Theresa May says the internet must now be regulated"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New international agreements should be introduced to regulate the internet in the light of the London Bridge terror attack, Theresa May has said.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister said introducing new rules for cyberspace would \u201cdeprive the extremists of their safe spaces online\u201d and that technology firms were not currently doing enough.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot allow this ideology the safe space it needs to breed \u2013\u00a0yet that is precisely what the internet, and the big companies that provide internet-based services provide,\u201d Ms May said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to work with allied\u00a0democratic governments to reach international agreements to regulate cyberspace to prevent the spread of extremist and terrorism planning.\u201d<\/p>\n

The call was one plank in Ms May\u2019s speech following the attack.\u00a0The Prime Minister also said Britain was too tolerant of extremism and that \u201cpluralistic\u201d\u00a0British values had to be established as superior.<\/p>\n

She\u00a0warned there was \u201ca new trend in the threat we face\u201d\u00a0and that while the three recent terror attacks in the UK were not linked by \u201ccommon networks\u201d, they were \u201cbound together by the single evil ideology of Islamic extremism\u201d.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Ms May\u2019s speech is thought to be the first time she has publicly called for international cooperation in bringing forward more red tape to cyberspace, however.<\/p>\n

The intervention comes after the introduction of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 \u2013 dubbed the\u00a0\u201cSnooper\u2019s Charter\u201d\u00a0\u2013 which expands the powers of spying agencies and the Government over the internet.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The PM\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Prime Minister said introducing new rules for cyberspace would \u201cdeprive the extremists of their safe spaces online\u201d and that technology firms were not currently doing enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Never waste a crisis…<\/p>\n

\u201cThe intervention comes after the introduction of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 \u2013 dubbed the\u00a0\u201cSnooper\u2019s Charter\u201d\u00a0\u2013 which expands the powers of spying agencies and the Government over the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who wins the election? Hung perhaps?<\/p>\n

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