Police are shutting websites without keeping any records, hampering government efforts to address online extremism, it's been revealed.
The Terrorism Act 2006 granted powers for police to compel web hosts to shut down websites promoting terrorism. But the powers have never been used, and forces have instead persuaded providers to take down websites voluntarily, according to the security minister Lord West.
He told the Lords on Wednesday that he could not say how many websites have been censored because no records have been kept.
"When we passed the Act in 2006, we laid down a requirement to make such records, but it has not really been done," he said.'
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