European Union Vows "No More Free Speech!"

This is incredible to me. From Bloomberg:

U.S. Internet giants Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc., Google and Microsoft Corp. pledged to tackle online hate speech in less than 24 hours as part of a joint commitment with the European Union to combat the use of social media by terrorists. 

Beyond national laws that criminalize hate speech, there is a need to ensure such activity by Internet users is “expeditiously reviewed by online intermediaries and social media platforms, upon receipt of a valid notification, in an appropriate time-frame,” the companies and the European Commission said in a joint statement on Tuesday.

Note the EU governments aren't vowing to get out of the Middle East after spending over a decade of killing innocent civilians there, leading to the rise of such extremist groups as ISIS. No, it is much easier to limit free speech rights.

Basically, the message is this: "Just shut up while I'm killing these Muslims, ok?" Mind you, even if they managed to kill every Muslim on Earth, your free speech rights wouldn't return.

Have a nice day. Just don't talk so loud.