Washington, D.C. -U.S. Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, appeared today on Fox Business Network’s “Morning’s With Maria" to discuss his bill (H.R. 3654 ) to require the Obama administration to lay out a strategy to combat terrorists’ use of social media. The Committee passed Rep. Poe’s bill unanimously at a markup earlier this morning.
You can
KEY EXCERPTS.
“In 2011, the president promised that he would come up with a strategy on dealing with terrorists on social media. He has come up with no strategy.
“[Terrorists] use social media sites to recruit, but also to raise money and also to spread their propaganda."
“[T]here are 40,000 terrorist site handles on Twitter…. You don’t have, as a terrorist organization, a constitutional right to use American companies to spread hate and propaganda and to recruit."
“The bill requires a strategy where we work with the private social media companies to bring down the terrorist sites.".
