(Global News) When the Toronto-based tech company Tucows Inc. discovered it was providing domain registration services to the Pakistani Taliban, it immediately contacted the RCMP for guidance.
Days later, it was still waiting for a response.
By Tuesday, it had waited long enough and took action on its own, disabling the website’s domain.
The site was one of two using the services of Tucows that were propaganda arms of outlawed terrorist organizations — Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).
Although such cases are rare, Tucows said that when they did occur, before taking sites down it notified police “to see if that action is going to disrupt anything that they’re up to.”
