The Australian Federal Police are exploring new powers that would allow officers to disrupt online chat rooms suspected of radicalising or recruiting individuals, and outlaw sadistic online instructions.
In what would be a significant expansion from mostly covert online powers currently used by the AFP, the new disruption mechanism would allow officers to overtly interrupt chat groups and websites.
The posts would declare the presence of law enforcement and that …
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