Terrorism, porn and internet censorship

After yet another low-tech but still horrific  terror attack in London, Theresa May is demanding on implementing something like a Chinese or North Korean control of the internet. Because it's very progressive and democratic to do so. It's so nice that the paragons of democracy and freedom, the US and the UK have been showing us the way with the Patriot Act, global surveillance, black prisons and whatnot how it's done. Regardless, now we need to go a step further: "The Conservative manifesto pledges regulation of the internet, including forcing internet providers to participate in counter-extremism drives and making it more difficult to access pornography." 

Now, if you restrict people's access to pornography, you can expect some serious radicalisation from certain segments of the society; but jokes aside: what exactly has porn do with terrorism? Why are so-called democratic countries are trying to restrict free information, free speech and access to internet using terrorism as a scapegoat? How exactly will internet censorship put an end to someone jump into a van with a knife? Shouldn't we ban vans and knives instead? (Not a serious proposal.) How much do these clowns actually know about technology? Are they aware that there's no "control" switch for "the internet"? Doesn't it worry people that the politicians in charge of decisions have absolutely no clue how the modern world works? Do you think if you monitor facebook chat, radicalization would not happen? (I wonder how it happened before the age of the internet. Oh yeah. Offline. It's a good thing today's radicals would not think of moving off the grid, right?) And it would totally not be used to censor people speaking up against the UK's little dirty "secrets", like the ongoing support for regimes supporting extremism, right?

And lastly: trying to enact your little 1984esque mind control schemes is quite disrespectful for the victims of the attack. It is quite telling how they are trying to use this atrocity as excuse while the bodies are still warm, in order to further this completely unrelated agenda: controlling the masses by restricting what they have access to. (If they had a beef with cotton candy, they'd be talking about banning it, too; and it would be just as bizarre as this linking of porn and terrorism.) This is a quite sinister trend, and nobody seems to be giving a single shit. I guess if you've got nothing to hide, it's fine that the UK government reads your emails and restricts what you can and cannot view online; after all, this whole adulting is hard. It's better if someone else makes decisions for you.