Online radicalization to violence

... are bad! Not all ideas that are extreme are necessarily dangerous. A number of ideas that we now accept as conventional wisdom—such as heliocentrism—were once very much outside the norm. What should governments, communities do to counter online radicalization to violence? One way the U.S. government has addressed this problem is through the use of sting operations. There are a number of different homegrown terrorism cases in which an individual espousing jihadist ideals has gotten into touch with people who allowed him to take part in a terrorist plot. The other plotters, in a sting operation, are in fact undercover agents testing the individual’s ...