CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "Today, rabble-rousers in Northern Ireland have an array of modern tools with which they can spread their extremist ideology. Research by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) has revealed that, in the online world, the spread of violent, hate-driven ideology happens relentlessly and around the clock and that tech companies are unwilling to meaningfully address the problem without pressure from government and law enforcement agencies. Generation Identity, for instance, has held a protest roughly every two months in Belfast since last August and has been growing its online following in the region. Far-Right activists in eastern Europe have been targeting British social media, promoting groups like Britain First, who caused a stir with their Belfast rally last year that led to the arrest of two of their leaders. Governments around the world are cracking down on tech companies who see themselves as outside the laws governing behaviour in the "real" world. Northern Ireland needs to follow suit, to tell these companies that they cannot profit from providing a platform for extremists looking to resurrect the violence of the past."