Radical Extremists Operate ‘With Impunity’ Online, New Laws Needed, UK Watchdog Says
Extremists can pro-actively glorify terror, openly promulgate anti-democratic ideologies, and radicalize others online yet still stay within the law, a UK watchdog warned on Wednesday.
There’s a “gaping chasm in the law” that allows such extremist activity, the Commission for Countering Extremism said in a review scrutinizing existing legislation.
It called for a new legal framework to tackle the radicalization threat.
An extremist can’t be prosecuted for grooming others unless they are “encouraging the commission, preparation, or instigation” of specific acts of terrorism, the review (pdf) said.