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Terrorism and internet censorship
JOURNAL OF PEACE RESEARCH ( IF 3.713 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 , DOI: 10.1177/0022343320959369
Stephen A Meserve 1 , Daniel Pemstein 2
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The internet provides a powerful tool to terror organizations, enhancing their public messaging, recruitment ability, and internal communication. In turn, governments have increasingly moved to disrupt terror organizations’ internet communications, and even democracies now routinely work to censor terrorist propaganda, and related political messaging, in the name of national security. We argue that democratic states respond to terror attacks by increasing internet censorship and broadening their capacity to limit the digital dissemination of information. This article builds on previous work suggesting this relationship, substantially improving measurement and estimation strategy. We use latent variable modeling techniques to create a new measure of internet censorship, cross nationally and over time, from internet firm transparency reports, and compare this measure to an expert-survey based indicator. Leveraging both measures, we use a variety of panel specifications to establish that, in democracies, increases in terror predict surges in digital censorship. Finally, we examine the posited relationship using synthetic control methods in a liberal democracy that experienced a large shock in terror deaths, France, showing that digital censorship ramped up after several large terrorist attacks.

中文翻译:

恐怖主义和互联网审查

互联网为恐怖组织提供了强大的工具,增强了他们的公共信息、招募能力和内部沟通。反过来,政府越来越多地采取行动破坏恐怖组织的互联网通信,甚至民主国家现在也经常以国家安全的名义审查恐怖主义宣传和相关的政治信息。我们认为,民主国家通过加强互联网审查和扩大限制信息数字传播的能力来应对恐怖袭击。本文建立在之前提出这种关系的工作的基础上,大大改进了测量和估计策略。我们使用潜在变量建模技术从互联网公司透明度报告中创建一种新的互联网审查措施,跨越国家和时间,并将此度量与基于专家调查的指标进行比较。利用这两种措施,我们使用各种面板规范来确定,在民主国家,恐怖活动的增加预示着数字审查的激增。最后,我们使用综合控制方法检查了在自由民主国家中的假定关系,该民主国家经历了恐怖死亡事件的巨大冲击,法国,表明数字审查制度在几次大型恐怖袭击之后加强了。
更新日期:2020-10-29
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