Cyber Terrorism’s interface on Social Media: Dissecting its Legal Regulation

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As the advancement of technology is taking place in society and has been increasing day by day. Technology is all about the human choice how they use it whether it is negative or positive outcomes. Internet has become more resourceful and articulate, as it could easily be used. Terrorist organizations not only utilize internet but also expand their ideas, which is often termed as cyber terrorism. Cyber terrorism is no defined internationally or nationally, but several attempts have been made to define this phenomenon. To counter violent extremism and to counter radicalization, as various interventions through the digital potential has been made by the terrorist organizations. Cyber terrorism is one of the most debatable and most ignored problems. Social media is a new phenomenon worldwide builds the virtual networks and communities. Terrorist organizations such like ISIS or Taliban are strongly getting involved in cyber activities via social media and internet. In the era of digital technology extremist have use various strategies for psychological warfare, recruitment, fundraising, radicalization, networking, planning and even for sharing information. The concept of Cyber Terrorism as a phenomenon is considered as most destructive menaces in a contemporary society, and will try to find out the most pertinent to the future threats as well as the current situation. Also, how extremist recruiters use available narratives and discourses to attract and bond with young people and will examine how the use of cyber terrorism, social media and internet have converged the virtual space for the terrorist organizations. Further, initiative should take to solve this problem globally. Over the past years the concept of “dark net” has taken place in which IP address of the user is unable to trace and hackers are using dark net for illegal purpose like selling of drugs, weapons etc. various links like onion URL, duck duck go has been used in which web content cannot be indexed. Social media is both a boon and a bane as; exploitation of social media has been done and currently in India there is no particular law which deals with social media as it is governed by the Information Technology Act, 2000 only.


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