Terror apps
Companies that provide messaging apps used by terrorists to plot carnage should be made liable
THE world’s biggest tech firms must wake up to the monstrous evil aided every day by their encrypted messaging apps.
Today’s Sun investigation shows how indispensable they are to IS terrorists covertly issuing instant instructions across thousands of miles to jihadist thugs volunteering to commit slaughter.
Our undercover reporter was vetted and given detailed orders by a recruiter via the Telegram service.
Giants like Facebook and Apple boast how impenetrable their messaging apps are. They claim it’s to protect ordinary people from State snooping or fraud.
Is that really of greater concern than the global terror threat they are aiding?
Does it not trouble them that the daily slaughter of innocent people — of children, of priests — is made possible by jihadists communicating without fear of being monitored by the likes of GCHQ?
The tech bosses’ recklessness and leftie paranoia about Big Brother blinds them to a far greater danger.
If they will not use their vast resources to act, governments must force them.
If companies provide a secure platform for terrorists to plot carnage, they should be made liable for billions in damages.
Doom? Boom
ARE the Brexit doom-mongers getting just a little embarrassed about their negativity? Do they have their own Bregrets?
Most have gone very quiet except to pop up occasionally to gloat over any scraps of bad news proving them “right”. Others are having to perform screeching public U-turns.
Sir Andrew Witty of drug giant GlaxoSmithKline predicted a Leave vote would be bad for business and “bring added complexity and uncertainty”.
Yesterday the firm announced a colossal £275million investment in Britain.
Economists said housebuilders would be hit hard. Taylor Wimpey yesterday said sales were entirely normal.
Business chiefs said thousands of jobs would go. McDonald’s is creating 5,000.
George Osborne, who claimed our economy had already slowed before the vote thanks to uncertainty, was wrong-footed again yesterday. Growth shot up.
Of course we are not nearly out of the woods. The next figures will be telling.
So far, the scary tales look like fairytales.
Channel 4 sale
WE are told Channel 4 must never be sold. Not with its “proud” record of innovation and public service broadcasting remit.
OK, it HAS churned out some decent comedies and films. But its news is even more rabidly left-wing than the BBC’s.
And then there’s Naked Attraction.
Has any show ever been more jaw-droppingly infantile or crass?
Channel 4 could be worth £1billion to taxpayers. A tidy sum. Let’s find a private buyer committed to funding real British TV and film talent — and sell it to them.