Google, Twitter to Crack Down on Terror-Related Content in Indonesia
2017年8月4日 - 9:06PM
Dow Jones News
By I Made Sentana
JAKARTA-- Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Twitter Inc. agreed Friday
to better police controversial online content including posts by
extremists after Indonesia threatened to shut down social-media and
messaging apps if they failed to stop users from spreading such
content.
Google will work with several Indonesian nongovernmental
organizations, which will flag offensive videos on Google's
video-sharing service YouTube, Information Technology Minister
Rudiantara said.
"This shows our seriousness in clamping down on negative
content," Mr. Rudiantara said.
Mr. Rudiantara said the system, which is expected to be fully
functional in the next two to three months, will be focused on
stemming radicalism in the world's largest Muslim-majority country.
Indonesian authorities have grown increasingly concerned with local
extremist groups' use of social media to spread propaganda from
organizations such as Islamic State.
The new initiative will also target posts seen as fueling
religious divisions and those deemed to promote the use of illegal
narcotics.
The program will allow selected volunteers to flag content that
violates the Google's terms of service or community guidelines in
Indonesia. Google will prioritize the review of content flagged by
the partners and then determine whether to remove it.
"It is a new program we have seen in the U.S. and a number of
European countries, but this might be for the first time in
Southeast Asia," said Ann Levin, Google's regional director of
policy and government affairs, after meeting with Mr. Rudiantara.
Ms. Levin added the company will review all content flagged against
the company's community guidelines.
The government's crackdown on content has raised concerns over
freedom of expression online in Indonesia.
Damar Juniarto, regional coordinator of Southeast Asia Freedom
of Expression Network, said he is concerned that the system is
prone to excessive government censorship and subjective judgment,
even if the platform providers determine whether to remove
content.
After a separate meeting with Twitter executives, Semuel
Pangerapan, director general of information application at
Indonesia's Information Technology Ministry, said the company
agreed to provide special access to the ministry to report
offensive content that would lead to its removal. Twitter
executives declined to comment.
Indonesian police have said that militants have learned to make
bombs from YouTube videos and used the encrypted Telegram messaging
application to promote radicalism and give instructions on carrying
out recent attacks, prompting Mr. Rudiantara to limit access to the
service and to threaten a ban.
Telegram Chief Executive Pavel Durov met Mr. Rudiantara on
Tuesday and said that Indonesian authorities can report
terror-related content to the company, which will then be reviewed
by a team of moderators familiar with Indonesia's language and
culture to determine whether to remove it. Mr. Rudiantara said the
partial blockage of Telegram would be lifted in the near
future.
Write to I Made Sentana at i-made.sentana@wsj.com
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