Indonesia Says Google Agrees to Monitor Negative YouTube Content
- Government in talks with Twitter too to increase scrutiny
- Country concerned about use of social media by extremists
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Indonesia and Alphabet Inc.’s Google agreed to step up monitoring of content on YouTube after the government said it was concerned about the growing misuse of social media platforms to spread material related to terrorism, racial violence and pornography.
The world’s fourth-most populous country has begun the trial of a so-called “trusted flagger system” to filter content on the video sharing website and will seek to formalize it in the coming months, Rudiantara, Communications and Information Technology minister, told reporters in Jakarta on Friday. The flagging system, to be used by the ministry and local non-government groups, will be limited to YouTube and will not apply to Google’s search engine, he said.