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The Guardian reports in reference to police action against the far right instigators of the recent violence:

The strict rules on evidence gathering for police and government bodies made it harder for authorities to scour some parts of the internet that are public, [Adam Hadley, the executive director of Tech Against Terrorism] said.

“What we’ve been trying to do is fill the gap between the government and the platforms. There are all sorts of perhaps unexpected barriers to doing things that are quite easy for us to do as citizens.”

What are these strict rules and barriers?

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  • Jurisdiction is the key here. A .de page is supposedly hosted in germany, a .at in Austria and a .com could be just about anywhere.
    – Trish
    Commented Aug 10 at 19:16
  • I do not understand this. Are you saying the UK police could be prevented from accessing data at the .de domain that is available to the general public?
    – User65535
    Commented Aug 10 at 19:17
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    @User65535 accessing data on the domain is easy, proving who posted what and hosted what is much harder.
    – littleadv
    Commented Aug 10 at 20:03
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    @gnasher729 The law behind that would be an answer.
    – User65535
    Commented Aug 11 at 10:08
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    @Trish The general public cannot "just get a warrant for a server in Germany" either. The question is what would they have to get a warrant for that the general public could just do? From the comments it may be something like the Sun Journalist who sat in on the Just Stop Oil zoom call, and if so that would be the answer.
    – User65535
    Commented Aug 11 at 12:38

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