Terrorists Mock Bids to End Use of Social Media
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/technology/terrorists-mock-bids-to-end-use-of-social-media.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
In some cases, Internet companies have been criticized
for not taking down websites that belong to the Islamic State,
only to have it discovered later that the sites were critical of
it. Matthew Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare, a San
Francisco company, said that in one case Internet activists
criticized his company for keeping several Islamic State
websites online when, in fact, the sites in question were
pro-Kurdish. "It's particularly risky to take a bunch of tech
companies that are not certified policy experts and insert them
into Middle East politics," Mr. Prince said. Pulling all
terror-related content is not always preferred by law
enforcement. In several cases, tech executives say, they have
been asked to keep terror-related content online so that law
enforcement agents can monitor terrorist networks or because the
content was created by law enforcement agents to lure terrorists
into divulging information. The issue is thornier for companies
like Facebook, in which the bulk of posts are meant to be
private. "Do you want Facebook looking at over 1.5 billion
people's posts?" said Zeynep Tufekci, an assistant professor in
technology policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. "And if so, then for what?"
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