It’s easy to pick apart the “Christchurch Call to Action,” the agreement by New Zealand, France, Canada and a dozen other countries to push back against violent extremism online. It’s voluntary, it doesn’t include ways to enforce its goals, and it doesn’t even include a definition of what it’s trying to limit. The Christchurch Call makes clear that fighting extremism online, including the white supremacist ideology behind the New Zealand massacre, must be an international effort. It’s clearly in the interests of the tech giants to bring in effective controls themselves rather than having them imposed from the outside. But if they fail to rein in violent extremism, governments must not hesitate to get tougher.

Source: thestar May 15, 2019 19:07 UTC