What is it about?
The author argues that the international community should continue working together to devise rules for monitoring specific Internet sites, as human lives are at stake. Preemptive measures could prevent the translation of murderous thoughts into murderous actions. Designated monitoring mechanisms for certain websites that promote violence and seek adherents for the actualization of murderous thoughts could potentially prevent such unfortunate events. The intention is to draw the attention of the international community' multi agents (law-enforcement agencies, governments, the business sector, including Internet Service Providers, websites administrators and owners, civil society groups) to the urgent need of developing monitoring schemes for certain websites, in order to prevent violent crimes.
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Why is it important?
Preventing murder and shooting sprees is important
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Sometimes I do research on one thing and discover a separate, no less important matter. This what happened here. My initial query related to the work of Internet intermediaries. During my research I discovered a phenomenon: Wanna-be killers vent their murderous intentions on the Internet before they embark on their deadly mission. Alert security agencies will be able to prevent many killings if they monitor certain parts of the Internet.
Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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This page is a summary of: People Do Not Just Snap: Watching the Electronic Trails of Potential Murderers, Journal of Civil & Legal Sciences, January 2014, OMICS Publishing Group,
DOI: 10.4172/2169-0170.1000113.
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