03.08.2017 - 12:03 [ Reason.com ]

Top U.K. Official: Give Up Your Tech Freedoms or the Terrorists Will Win

The way the United Kingdom‘s Home Secretary describes the internet and online communications, you‘d think privacy and free speech actually cause terrorism.

Amber Rudd, like many of her deliberately dense political peers, is making the media rounds calling for weakening encryption and strengthening online censorship, all in the name of preventing future terror attacks.