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So much recent evidence points to the way Islamists use the internet. They recruit through the internet, promote ideology through the internet, communicate via the internet. My question is this: To what extent are the providers and individual websites responsible for such use?" If a website knows of a person continually promoting or justifying terrorism, should there be some obligation as a good citizen to report the user? Should the bar be placed in a different place, say the active recruitment of terrorists? The links to terrorist sites? Do you think there should be no responsibility at all, since providers and websites are only serving their own needs and not the needs of the greater community?
My opinion that a website IS responsible for being a good citizen. The explosion of Islamist violence recently indicates that a response to it be thorough and systematic, and that includes a response to the ideology involved. I believe there are limits to libertarianism, and the extremely libertarian attitude of allowing anybody to use the internet for any purpose violates the basic social construct of good citizenship. I believe websites and providers share some responsibility for alerting authorities to suspected Islamists who justify terrorism. The toll for not doing so is simply too great.
What say you?
My opinion that a website IS responsible for being a good citizen. The explosion of Islamist violence recently indicates that a response to it be thorough and systematic, and that includes a response to the ideology involved. I believe there are limits to libertarianism, and the extremely libertarian attitude of allowing anybody to use the internet for any purpose violates the basic social construct of good citizenship. I believe websites and providers share some responsibility for alerting authorities to suspected Islamists who justify terrorism. The toll for not doing so is simply too great.
What say you?