Could internet firm have prevented Lee Rigby's murder?

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25 Nov, 2014 Caroline Donnelly
 
A report published today by the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament into the circumstances that led to the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in May 2013 claims an unnamed internet company could have taken steps to prevent it.
According to the document, one of the perpetrators of the crime - Michael Adebowale – had an online exchange with a fellow extremist where he detailed plans to murder a British soldier in December 2012.
Details of this exchange only emerged after the fatal attack against Rigby took place, but it could have been detected earlier, the report claims, if the online messaging platform used by Adebowale had flagged it.
 
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 By Glenn Greenwald
 
  In May, 2013, a British Army soldier, Lee Rigby, was killed on a suburban London street by two Muslim British citizens, who said they were acting to avenge years of killings of innocent Muslims by the British military in, among other places, Afghanistan and Iraq. One of the attackers, Michael Adebolajo, had also been detained and tortured in 2010 in Kenya with the likely complicity of Her Majesty’s Government. The brutal attack on Rigby was instantly branded “terrorism” (despite its targeting of a soldier of a nation at war) and caused intense and virtually universal indignation in the UK.
 
  https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/26/campaign-shame-social-media-companies-acting-spy-agents-national-security-state/

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