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House Overseas Committee Requested According to a letter sent by four Tech CEOs of the House Committee, the CEO of Discord, Twitch, Reddit and Gaming Platform Steam has been accused of being involved in any online “radicalization” on their platform and “provocative for politically inspired”.
In a statement, the chairman of the Overseas Committee RAP. James Kamar mentions Charlie Cort’s murder and “other activities of politically inspired violence” because the Congress has the responsibility of overseeing the online platforms that radicals have used to achieve the progress of political violence. ”
“In order to prevent future radicalization and violence, the CEOs of Discords, Steam, Twitch and Reddit must appear in front of the monitoring committee and their platforms should be explained to ensure that they will not be absorbed for hate purposes.”
TechCrunch has reached the company called.
Discord told TechCrunch that it was waiting to testify in October.
“We are constantly involved with policymakers on these critical issues and are hoping to continue this important conversation next month,” a spokesman said.
Reddit, already, Told Reuters It investigated the link between his platform and the death of Kerk, saying that it was not yet proven that Corse’s death was an active Reddit user. The company told the outlet that “it has a strong policy against the content and content that encourages, encourages, glorify or calls for violence.”
Carc was a prominent conservative activist and a close ally of President Trump. Tyler Robinson, a 22 -year -old Oita resident, was arrested for the shooting and killing of Carc last week when Kirk Utah spoke at Utah Valley University in Utah. Robinson Seemed to be confessed Shortly before his arrest, committing a crime on Discord. Used to bullet Was obviously engraved with mems and references In video games.
This piece was updated to add a statement to the spokesperson of the Discord.
