Interior Minister Marco Minniti
said after a Group of Seven meeting Friday that "today a great
alliance between government and big providers in the name of the
principles of freedom has started to take its first steps,"
commenting on a deal with Web giants to block terror content.
"Internet is an extraordinary vehicle for freedom which
cannot be called into question. We can win this fight against
the malware of terror and hatred", Minniti said after the G7
also agreed joint moves to gather information against foreign
fighters in Raqqa.
The accord envisages three points: an automatic block of
images and content deemed incitement to terrorism;
collaboration by the major providers with smaller subjects,
platforms and social networks which hae millions of users; and
the diffusion of a counter-narrative to jihadi messages.
"It is time for the rulers of the world's biggest countries
to sit down at the same table with providers," Minniti went on
to stress.
"Internet has been a vehicle of conversion, recruitment,
training, radicalisation and also emulation.
"Intervening is therefore a crucial aspect," Minniti
underlined.
"We are faced with the malware of terror," the Italian
interior minister said.
"We must make every effort to defeat it.
The Italian interior minister went on to reiterate that the
agreement represents "a model for cooperation between
governments and private structures, built on a mutual
relationship of trust.
"And God only knows how much this world needs a relationship
of trust.
"With trust we can win this fight against the malware of
terror".
The G7 interior ministers also decided to take "joint action
to gather and share information" at Raqqa, the fallen Syrian
capital of Islamic State, Minniti said after the summit.
Minniti said Raqqa could now become "an extraordinary mine of
information".
He said "we must gather it and share it to have a clear
picture of the threat."
Minniti stressed that this will help provide proof in courts
against foreign fighters.
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