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Online Terrorism

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Routledge Handbook of Online Violent Extremism

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Terrorists have always adopted the most advanced technologies available to them. The focus of this chapter is the intersection of terrorism and the online realm, a topic that has long been of interest to researchers, policymakers, and practitioners alike. The chapter considers the online as a site f...

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description Terrorists have always adopted the most advanced technologies available to them. The focus of this chapter is the intersection of terrorism and the online realm, a topic that has long been of interest to researchers, policymakers, and practitioners alike. The chapter considers the online as a site for both substantive acts of (cyber)terrorism, as well as a much wider range of preparatory, facilitative and supportive forms of terrorism-related activity. It then examines the principal powers that states have deployed against online terrorism and the responses that have been developed by the tech industry itself. Evident throughout is the tension between, on the one hand, ensuring that contemporary understandings of terrorism reflect the latest technological developments and that counterterrorism powers enable early intervention and prevention and, on the other hand, the importance of clearly defined powers that do not overreach for various reasons, including the protection of fundamental human rights.
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