{"id":143665,"date":"2015-02-19T15:29:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T15:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=143665"},"modified":"2015-02-19T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T15:30:00","slug":"u-s-government-demands-social-media-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/u-s-government-demands-social-media-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Government Demands Social Media Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress and the White House are leaning on Twitter to censor Islamic State posts on its network.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/twitter-under-pressure-to-act-more-aggressively-against-terrorists-230347109.html\">Rep. Ted Poe<\/a>, R-Texas, the chair of a House foreign affairs subcommittee on terrorism, has singled out Twitter for allowing supposed IS operatives to recruit and propagandize on the social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the way (the Islamic State) is recruiting \u2013 they are getting people to leave their homelands and become fighters,\u201d Poe said.<\/p>\n<p>He added \u201cthere is frustration with Twitter specifically\u201d over its refusal to censor tweets the government claims promotes terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Poe and other members of Congress will send a letter to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo this week demanding the popular social media platform shut down tweets attributed to IS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/2\/4\/7982099\/twitter-ceo-sent-memo-taking-personal-responsibility-for-the\">Costolo admitted<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month \u201cWe suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we\u2019ve sucked at it for years.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Poe said the government wants Twitter \u201cto treat this the same as child pornography,\u201d Yahoo News reports.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has responded to the accusations by saying it provides user tracking information on alleged IS members to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>The White House, however, has complained that Twitter will not respond to inquiries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/federal-government-demands-social-media-censorship\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress and the White House are leaning on Twitter to censor Islamic State posts on its network. Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, the chair of a House foreign affairs subcommittee on terrorism, has singled out Twitter for allowing supposed IS operatives to recruit and propagandize on the social media platform. \u201cThis is the way (the Islamic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-143665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-sicence-technology","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}