Abstract
The authors argue 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. Our intention is to draw the attention of the international community’s 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.
Highlights
When the idea of the Internet was first conceived by visionaries such as Vannevar Bush [1], Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider [2], Douglas Engelbart [3], Vint Cerf [4], Robert W
This paper focuses on the story of Kimveer Gill, a 25-year-old man from Laval, Montreal who wished to murder young students at Dawson College
Most notably the Kimveer Gill episode and Vampire-Freaks.com, the site which hosted his murderous thoughts, we argue that if the police had monitored this site as well as other such known sites on a regular basis, bloodshed could have been prevented
Summary
When the idea of the Internet was first conceived by visionaries such as Vannevar Bush [1], Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider [2], Douglas Engelbart [3], Vint Cerf [4], Robert W. The Net serves as a communication medium comprising all other media. It is an arena for a wide array of public debates, social networks, an infrastructure for digital commercial activities, and a megasized information bank [8]. One of the ways to confront the dangers of boundless speech over the web is by monitoring such dangerous, anti-social websites as well as ones that are likely to be. The Internet business sector (Internet Service Providers, websites administrators and owners) bears an even heavier responsibility, since the moral obligations imposed on it may in due course become a legal obligation as was the case with regard to child pornography and Cybercrime5 [14]. Most notably the Kimveer Gill episode and Vampire-Freaks.com, the site which hosted his murderous thoughts, we argue that if the police had monitored this site as well as other such known sites on a regular basis, bloodshed could have been prevented
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