The CleanIT project was funded by the European Commission’s Home Affairs Directorate in order to reduce the impact of terrorist use of the internet, but a leaked document has shown that the initiative is not what it seems to be.

The main focus of the programme, in which participants are, among others, the Dutch National Coordinator for Terrorism and Security, Spain, the UK, Belgium and Europol, is to fight terrorism through voluntary self-regulatory measures under the law. Howe...