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Surveillance and Resistance: Online Radicalization and the Political Response

Surveillance and Resistance: Online Radicalization and the Political Response

David Martin Jones
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781466696617|ISBN10: 1466696613|EISBN13: 9781466696624
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9661-7.ch007
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Jones, David Martin. "Surveillance and Resistance: Online Radicalization and the Political Response." National Security and Counterintelligence in the Era of Cyber Espionage, edited by Eugenie de Silva, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 122-143. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9661-7.ch007

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Jones, D. M. (2016). Surveillance and Resistance: Online Radicalization and the Political Response. In E. de Silva (Ed.), National Security and Counterintelligence in the Era of Cyber Espionage (pp. 122-143). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9661-7.ch007

Chicago

Jones, David Martin. "Surveillance and Resistance: Online Radicalization and the Political Response." In National Security and Counterintelligence in the Era of Cyber Espionage, edited by Eugenie de Silva, 122-143. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9661-7.ch007

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Abstract

This chapter provides readers with an overview and discussion of the manner in which the Internet and social media has facilitated movements, ranging from Aryan Nations and the various European Defence Leagues, to the Global Jihadist Movement and anarchist groups. As the phenomenon of netwar and online recruitment evolved after 9/11, extremist movements motivated by illiberal and apocalyptic ideologies have found the Internet a congenial space for organization, dissemination, education and radicalization. This chapter examines the difficulty liberal political democracies have in censoring these groups and the ideas they promote. Civil rights organizations immediately condemn state electronic surveillance as an invasion of civil liberties, and present the liberal democrat with an acute moral and political dilemma. This chapter finally considers the tactics democratic states might prudently adopt in order to preserve the national interest.

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