The acting U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke has called on Silicon Valley to remove extremist content, Reuters reported.
The United States and Britain are set to push social media firms to deal with the problem at a G7 meeting of interior ministers this week, Duke told reporters in London where she had been meeting British Home Secretary (interior minister), Amber Rudd.
“There has been a shift and for us somewhat with the Charlottesville incident,” she said. “There are a lot of social pressures and they want do business so they really have to balance between keeping their user agreements and giving law enforcement what they need.”
But that’s not all; the Trump administration is also trying to go after encryption technology.
“We would like to have the ability to get encrypted data with the right legal processes,” Duke said.
It’s an argument that has persisted since the Obama administration – should the government have backdoor access to encrypted chat apps despite being in a violation of civil liberties?
Duke said there’s been a change in the behavior of tech companies since a rally organized by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August turned deadly when a counter-protester was killed after a man drove his car into the crowd deliberately killing a woman Heather Heyer.
“The fact they are meeting with us at G7 is a positive sign. I think they’re seeing the evidence of it being real and not just hyperbole,” Duke said.
Now the tech companies themselves are going to be meeting with G7 leaders to handle this problem of “extremist content.” But does that define just ISIS videos, or is the definition broader? She actually answered that question, and so has Google and its subsidiary YouTube who have begun a crackdown on content on the video platform and search engine.
“The number of foreign fighters we have returning is declining,” she said. “The number of home-grown violent extremists, most of them inspired by terrorist organizations, is increasing.”
Notice how she didn’t state ISIS, she said the broad definition “terrorist organizations.”
Google and YouTube have even begun targeting “conspiracy theories” and websites spreading “conspiracy theory as factual information without basis.”
Obama’s DHS didn’t hesitate to call those who believe in conspiracy theories potential right-wing terrorists, stating the following points might make someone a terrorist in a study by the University of Maryland, which was funded in part by the Department of Homeland Security.
- Americans who “are fiercely nationalistic, as opposed to universal and international in orientation”
- Americans considering themselves “anti-global”
- Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority”
- Americans who are “reverent of individual liberty (especially their right to own guns and be free of taxes)”
- Americans exhibiting a belief in “conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty and a belief that one’s personal and/or national way of life is under attack”
Specifically listing Americans who love liberty as terrorists, noting two subgroups of “right-wing extremism” were identified as “gun rights” and “tax protest,” according to PJ Media.
After all, according to U.K. think tank Demos, literature from more than 50 extremist groups includes “conspiracy theories.”
So how will Trump’s administration compare to his predecessor? It has almost been a year since President Donald Trump took office and we seem to be losing more and more of our rights day by day. I guess in the eyes of the DHS I am a terrorist and so are you if you just read this article.
Written by @an0nkn0wledge for @ActivistPost
So who exactly is going to determine what constitutes "extremist content?" The need for decentralized social media platforms is growing literally by the day.
THE TRUTH AND ANYTHING THAT GOES AGAINST THE POWERS THAT BE.I THINK THEY HAVE LEFT IT TO LATE,THERE'S TO MANY OF US NOW.WHAT DO YOU THINK?PLEASE COMMENNT.
I think the tide of reason is on our side. The centralized powers can't have their corporate world government without our social contract. They are the real terrorists behind 9/11 and funding radical Islam. To stop our right wing populist movement, they will have to start a civil war, and that relies on the police and military going along with their agenda. Thankfully, most soldiers and cops seem to be quite aware of the central banking elitist powers that control all of us.
I would like to agree, but you my friend are dead wrong. They don't need our social contract ! The "Social Contract" has been in effect for 100 yrs, "Do as you please with us, because we really don't care" ..
They will NOT have to start a civil war, it has been going on for many years already, they lock us up one by one, take our money and NOW are going to call us all terrorist!
"Thankfully, most soldiers and cops seem to be quite aware of the central banking elitist powers that control all of us." Thankfully ??? Yes, most of them do, and are part of it !
First they ignore us.
Then they fight us.
Then only we win.
We have to keep doing our best to legally undermine their power.
You can legally reduce the amount of taxes you pay:http://nomadcapitalist.com/
You can avoid using FAANG products.
Support blockchain products.
Make https://duckduckgo.com/ your default search.
Use Brave browser which pays for you to view ads.
Mine cryptocurrency.
Basically just vote with your wallet and feet. USSA is going the way of Sweden.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=what+is+really+happening+in+sweden
The Evil Elitist has momentum and gaining traction everyday. Now pretty much making it law that all people are terrorist and can and will be treated as such. Do any of you so call "Muricans" really believe there could be any other outcome.
"If you don't stand for something, You will fall for anything"
Most of you have fallen for it all, Hook, line and sinker.
Excuse me, you can go back to watching your cartoons now ...
Another sad day in the USA ...
Read More, Reason More ... JTS
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