Theresa May’s Plan to Stop Online Extremism Would Require an Impossible Encryption Ban

In the wake of the recent Manchester and London terror attacks, Theresa May responded by declaring that the UK must enforce stricter control over online communications. In an address outside 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister issued a warning to tech companies: “We need to deprive the extremists of their safe spaces online.” However, the proposal to ban end-to-end encryption in order to effectively prohibit these…