Tech Giants Agree to Speed Up Hate Speech Suppresion

Internet giants Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft signed up Tuesday to a new EU code of conduct against hate speech, the European Commission said.

The US-based firms have agreed to speed up their reactions when illegal material is flagged up, with the aim of looking at all suspicious material within 24 hours.…

There are two sides to this, and free expression tends to lose more than the true hatemongers and terrorists.