Theresa May calls for Internet crackdown after London attacks

Published June 5, 2017 10:57am ET



“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH” In the wake of the latest terrorist attack in London, British Prime Minister Theresa May, declaring “enough is enough,” said it’s time to take away safe spaces used by terrorists on the Internet. “We cannot and must not pretend that things can continue as they are,” May said outside Number 10 Downing Street. “Things need to change.”

May is calling for an overhaul of Britain’s counterterrorism strategy to defeat what she called the “ideology of Islamist extremism,” including the regulation of cyberspace to prevent the spread of extremism and terrorist planning.

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