Technology
US Government requests the CEOs of Technology to provide non-violent online platforms
The US Homeland Security Department sent a letter to chief executives of five large technology companies requesting that social media platforms not be used to incite violence after George Floyd 's death in the wake of nationwide protests.
I write to ask that you do your part by ensuring that violence and illicit activity spanning our country do so by preventing your platforms from acting in violation of state legislation and local law as a tool for organizing, facilitating or inciting dangerous or fatal riots.
Wolf said First Amendment rights allowing free expression of people but warning against armed social media to continue criminal activity. Wolf said that department supports First Amendment rights.
Wolf wrote: "The misuse of social media to co-ordinate criminal acts jeopardizes the security and security of our nation, supporting its strong voice for its users."
In order to help end the information on how to disconnect city curfes from the stores and neighborhoods that are to be targeted for looting or destruction and to coordinate attacks on specific people or groups of people, Facebook , Twitter, Alphabet's Google, Snapchat and Apple.
The letter from 25 June, first reported by the Washington Post, comes as President Donald Trump's administration began targeting people in protests against racial disparity for vandalizing monuments and statues.
It would answer the letter, Twitter said. While Google did not immediately respond, Snapchat, Apple and Facebook did not comment.
Some companies have taken action on Trump's own tweets.
In early June, after his statement threatening protesters with 'vicious dogs and ominous weapons,' Snapchat stopped promoting the Trump account on the Discovery site.
Twitter issued a warning this week on a Trump tweet threatening to use the label "serious force" against protestors in the US capital.
