Facebook and YouTube Commitment Fights Terrorism on the Internet

Jakarta - Google and Facebook declare their commitment in combating content that smells of radicalism and terrorism in cyberspace.

Head of Public Policy Facebook Indonesia Ruben Hattari, conveyed his concern over the incident of bomb attacks that occurred four days ago.

"In essence, we want to say especially Facebook does not give space for violence and if it finds content that violates the community, we immediately lowered," Ruben said met at the Ministry of Communications and Informatics (Kominfo), Jakarta, Tuesday (15/05/2018 ).

Ruben also expressed his appreciation to the government and also the police who diligently reported negative content inside Facebook.

"Which we then immediately take action," he said.

Meanwhile, Danny Ardianto representative of Google and YouTube, says the same tone. The company from Uncle Sam's country expressed his condolences related to the tragedy that occurred several days.

"We are working with the government and the wider community to remove content containing terror, violence, hate speech We have a strong policy within YouTube itself, we can not have such content on our platform," he said.

Mentioned Danny, YouTube works 24 hours in 7 days for content radicalism to terrorism is not displayed on the YouTube platform.

"We are very grateful to the government and society because we work well together, and we want to continue to do so in support of the government's commitment," Danny said.

On this day, the Minister of Communications and Informatics (Menkominfo) Rudiantara called four technology companies at the Ministry of Communications and Informatics Building. The four companies are Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Telegram.

Government and technology companies are coordinating each other to reduce the circulation of content of radicalism and terrorism in cyberspace