Number 10 gave a strong hint to reporters that new anti-terror measures to tackle online extremism - including far-right radicalisation - could be in the Queen’s speech on Wednesday.
Last week, May announced a UK-French initiative to explore creating a new legal liability for tech companies if they fail to remove inflammatory content, which could include penalties such as fines.
May also pledged during the election campaign that the government would develop tools with tech companies to crack down on online extremism.
On Monday after May met community leaders in Finsbury Park following the van attack on worshippers leaving the mosque, Downing Street said the reforms were a priority for the government “Extremism takes many forms and she has spelled out as a couple of weeks ago that we have plans to crack down on extremism, there is extremism on the internet of all kinds and we’ll be focusing on extremism of all kinds,” the prime minister’s spokesman said “She was very clear that we are going to bring this work forward and we are going to focus on all forms of extremism.”
Downing Street would not commit to the final package being announced in the Queen’s speech however. “We are going to bring forward this work soon,” the spokesman said.
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