President’s Secretary Austin &  Representatives of Facebook  to Meet Today

The President’s Secretary Austin Fernando and representatives of Facebook will meet at the Presidential Secretariat today (15) , to work out a method to ensure necessary protection and surveillance, and to lift the temporary restriction on access to the facebook site, the Presidential Secretariat said.

Issuing a statement, the Presidential Secretariat said “the President stresses the importance of a guided mechanism to prevent the attempts to disturb the livelihoods of people, through spreading ethnic-hatred and racism and damaging the image of an individual through false allegations.”

The Government has taken steps to restrict access to social media tools temporarily during the last few days, in order to curtail the attempts to spread communal violence across the country, misusing the social media in a manner detrimental to the national harmony.