*ISLAMABAD: National Counter Terrorism Authority developed an onlinereporting portal, aimed at countering online extremism, abuse of internetand social media. *
‘Surf safer’ is an online reporting portal for Pakistanis to reportextremist online-content freely, securely and anonymously as well.
The other purpose of responsive web portal is to create eyes and ears incyber-sphere to counter radical and extremism ideology in online realm.
The implementation status (NACTA Review – December 2017) of NationalAction Plan (NAP) has revealed that the mission of surfsafer (link) is to counter online extremism, map and eliminateextremist content, help victims of extremism by regaining space for valuesof moderation, love and fraternity in cyber-sphere through communityparticipation and ultimately make internet a safer place for everyone.
It said in order to filter social media sites and enable vigilance againstcyber-crimes, `Prevention of Electronic Crime’ Act-2016 has already beenpassed by parliament and constant vigilance of internet traffic hasresulted in blocking of 1447 URLs which hosted extremist content.
NACTA and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) are continuouslycoordinatingon this issue.
The Review further revealed that mobile application has been developed andavailable at Google Play Store and Apple Store.
NACTA’s Android and iOS applications (Tat’heer apps- CHAUKAS)are mobile-based user-friendly systems which enable a common citizen toreport any incidence of hate speech or extremist content in form of video,audio, photo and URL/text visible to them on cyber-sphere. -APP