Security commissioner Julian King assured EU citizens on Thursday (13 September) that plans to tackle the spread of terrorist content online do not amount to “anywhere near censorship.” Speaking on Thursday’s plans to counter the spread of terrorist material, King said: “Every single one of the attacks in Europe over the last eighteen months has had an online dimension, though incitement to carry out an attack and often glorification.” The commission’s proposal to regulate against the offending content includes a ‘one-hour’ rule for the removal of material, addressing the issue of how terrorist material is often used as propaganda to radicalise others and reaches many more potential targets the longer it is left online. “The damaged caused by this terrorist content rises every hour it is online,” King said. The Counter Extremism Project has called upon for the commission to revise the plans so that the one-hour rule applies to the time in which the terrorist material was uploaded online, and not from the time in which it was reported to the service provider.