Terrorist media operations are resilient because they proliferate under new names

Evidence

At the most basic level, the websites and other Internet platforms provide instruction on how to use the Internet in the service of terrorism. Such media outlets are essentially uncontrollable. If they are disabled, they come back under new names. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2270

Categorization

  • QUESTION: Worth chasing: what is the actual empirical rate and mechanics of re-emergence versus suppression, and does this claim generalize to non-terrorist banned extremist networks?