Hillary Clinton Asks Tech Companies to Help Thwart ISIS Online
By DAVID E. SANGER and AMY CHOZICKDEC. 15, 2015
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton on Tuesday accelerated her call for technology companies to cooperate with the government and develop a “unified national strategy in cyberspace” to stop the Islamic State from using the Internet to recruit members in the United States and around the world.
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But the core of her speech focused on how to end the deep suspicions between Silicon Valley and the government that were accentuated by the disclosures of Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor. She called on technology firms to move faster to remove websites and videos that espouse the violent ideology of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, an effort some companies, including YouTube, have been attempting for some time.
Others companies, however, have expressed concern about becoming the government’s censor, or being put in the position of deciding what constitutes free speech and what constitutes incitement.
“The tech community and the government have to stop seeing each other as adversaries” and start working together, Mrs. Clinton said.
Mrs. Clinton acknowledged that would be particularly difficult when it came to encryption — used to secure the chats, bank accounts and emails of ordinary Americans, and used by terrorists to hide their communications. “I know there is no magic fix to this dilemma,” she said, arguing, it seemed, for a middle ground that would not result in “impenetrable encryption” that the police and intelligence officials could not crack.
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