WASHINGTON - Following the live-streaming on social media of the mass shooting in New Zealand, the chair of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security wrote a letter to top executives of four major technology companies urging them to do a better job of removing violent political content.
The letter follows the fatal shootings of 50 worshippers in two mosques in Christchurch last week. The shooter, a suspected white supremacist, live-streamed the killings on social media, where it was widely shared. Facebook said it removed 1.5 million videos showing the attack in the first 24 hours after it occurred.A Facebook spokesman said the company “will brief the committee soon.” Google, Twitter and Microsoft did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
“If politicians want to restrict the First Amendment or eliminate the tools with which much of the world communicates in real time, they should understand they are also taking away the tools that bear witness to government brutality, war crimes, corporate lawlessness and incidents of racial bias,” Wyden said in a statement.
Tech companies don't even know what's happening on their own platforms. Their 'services' were built to monetize their users. They cannot police them.
Well that rules out a lot of content particularly for on World Star News.
I guess we don't need that old fashioned first amendment anymore
Why don't we just drop a nuke on Silicon Valley?
Wow a government who dares hold tech companies accountable for content. A lesson for our incompetent elected officials😡
Any criticism of Islam is violence.
but not remove guns. just content. ok gotcha.