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MEDIA RELEASE: HOME OFFICE INTERNET PLAN IS DANGEROUS AND ABSURD
17 January 2008
Responding to the Home Secretary’s proposals to clamp down on extremist websites, Progressive Vision, the classical liberal think tank, has said that the plans are absurd and dangerous.
Mark Littlewood, Communications Director of Progressive Vision, said:
“The idea that terrorism can be thwarted by seeking to shut down extremist websites is absurd and dangerous. It is easy to host such sites outside of British jurisdiction or to relaunch a website that is closed down, literally within minutes. Any definition of what constitutes unacceptable extremism is going to be hazy and subjective at best. Will web-based message boards that flippantly say someone deserves to die be ripped down by MI5? Will internet discussions about the use of political violence be deemed unacceptable? Will these new laws be used principally against Muslims? Jacqui Smith’s plans are an incoherent recipe for disaster.”
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