EU threatens Google, Microsoft, Twitter & YouTube with tough new laws to curtail hate speech

The European Commission has called on leading US technology companies including Google, Microsoft, Twitter & YouTube to speed-up their efforts to crackdown on hate speech and incitement to violence -under threat of tough new laws to enforce action.
Back in May the firms joined forces to sign-up to a voluntary code of conduct in which they promised to ‘quickly and efficiently’ tackle hate speech but the EC has been singularly unimpressed, demanding actions not words and opening th