ROMANS: Facebook vows to be "hostile to terrorists" after the U.K. prime minister blames tech companies for helping foster terrorism.</s>MAY: We cannot allow this ideology the safe space it needs to breed. Yet, that is precisely what the internet and the big companies that provide internet-based services provide.</s>ROMANS: Especially all the encrypted channels that are offered. She wants tougher regulations for cyberspace, and many governments criticize tech companies for how they handle terrorist threats, especially in their encrypted messaging services. Investigations show terrorists use online tools from your favorite social media companies to coordinate attacks. And law enforcement wants access, but Facebook, Google and Apple lobby against giving authorities a peek. They say it hurts the privacy of customers, not terrorists. Facebook and twitter also, of course, condemn terrorist content on their sites, telling CNN they're working to curb terrorism and warn of attacks. However, they offer no specific plans.</s>BRIGGS: All right, a strong response from the British prime minister after yet another terror attack on her soil.</s>MAY: They are bound together by the single, evil ideology of Islamistic extremism.</s>BRIGGS: The prime minister laying out what needs to change to bring this terror spree to a stop. We are live in London next on "Early Start."
Facebook To Be Hostile to Terrorists.