A Bergin and C Ungerer, ‘Homeward Bound: Australia’s New Counter-Terrorism White Paper’, Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), Policy Analysis no. 57, March 2010, note:
There are more than 4,000 terrorist-related websites worldwide. Ideas cross borders through cyberspace. We aren’t going to ban our way out of this problem. Cyberspace affords individuals access and anonymity in an extremist environment and the ability to find like-minded extremists in thousands of chat rooms and social networking sites.
To what extent can any government respond to online terrorist propaganda without compromising the availability and use of the Internet for legitimate, however contentious, political discussion and debate? How and where should the dividing line between free speech and community safety be made?
