{"id":2269,"date":"2018-03-06T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:37:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T16:37:46","slug":"digital-giants-must-tackle-millennial-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2269","title":{"rendered":"Digital Giants Must Tackle Millennial Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2280\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2280\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=2280\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_7120-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Hosting the Counter Terror Awards, Olympia, London\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_7120-2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_7120-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hosting the\u00a0Security &amp; Counter Terror Awards, Olympia, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon, presenting the first Counter Terror Awards at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterterrorexpo.com\/counter-terror-awards-2018\" target=\"_blank\">Security &amp; Counter Terror Expo 18<\/a>\u00a0called on tech industry giants to \u201chelp root out\u201d terrorists who are using social media to spread extremism.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech, \u201cTackling the Millennial Terrorist\u201d, the Sevenoaks MP said the changing nature of terrorism meant digital companies have a duty to help \u201ctackle the aggressors behind the algorithms and the enemies behind the encryption.\u00a0 These companies are hiding behind the pretence that they are not publishers: on the contrary, they have created huge ungoverned spaces in which extremism flourishes.\u00a0 It\u2019s bad enough that some of them don\u2019t pay proper taxes in the UK; what\u2019s shocking is that they could be doing much more to help our security services forestall these deadly attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He argued that recent terror attacks show everyone is now a legitimate target, saying: \u201cAs terrorists adopt more low level methods, killing with knives and vans, the range of targets increases\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c90 per cent of organised terrorism on the Internet takes place via social media\u201d, he said, \u201cand for these millennial terrorists communication is 90 per cent of their struggle. Facebook, Google and the rest cannot opt out of their responsibility\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Michael also praised the \u201cbrainpower of innovative British businesses\u201d for their part in tackling the threat.\u00a0 He presented 10 companies and public sector organisations with Counter Terror awards.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full speech <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?page_id=2191\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon, presenting the first Counter Terror Awards at the Security &amp; Counter Terror Expo 18\u00a0called on tech industry giants to \u201chelp root out\u201d terrorists who are using social media to spread extremism. In his speech, \u201cTackling the Millennial Terrorist\u201d, the Sevenoaks MP said the changing nature of terrorism meant digital &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2269\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Digital Giants Must Tackle Millennial Terrorists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[791,686,103,631,792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}