The Australian government is working with the Online Harms Foundation, an affiliate of Tech Against Terrorism, to increase its surveillance of online terrorist activity. The initiative aims to quickly and accurately refer terrorist content online to the eSafety Commissioner.
Tech Against Terrorism works with the Australian government and technology companies around the world to counter online extremism. The program was launched by the United Nations in 2016.
Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said in a statement that the Australian government would meet its duty to protect Australians from cyber threats. He continued, “By working with Tech Against Terrorism, we can take practical steps to counter radicalism and terrorism in cyberspace in Australia and the region.
Based on the definitions we know of terrorism in the West, such plans will mean increasing pressure on Muslims and incidents such as the terrorist attacks on a mosque in New Zealand, which were carried out by an extremist and non-Muslim. Cyber surveillance under the pretext of terrorism means eliminating freedom of expression in a country that claims to be free of expression, because the terrorists who brought the country of Syria and Iraq to ruin often entered these countries from Western countries and were returned to their countries after completing their mission, in the form of a court.
