CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes in the Eureporter: "The European Union recently upped the pressure on social media companies to do more to remove terrorist material from their platforms. Growing frustrated with the continued presence of dangerous content online, the EU Commission called on tech firms to remove this radicalizing material within one hour of being notified of its existence. Rather than acknowledging the harm that radicalizing extremist materials have perpetrated, accepting responsibility, and pledging to dedicate the requisite resources to guarantee and measure the permanent removal of prohibited extremist content, the tech industry and EDiMA instead stressed the need to “balance the responsibility to protect users while upholding fundamental rights.” This rhetoric is of course patently absurd, and represents tech’s attempt to distract from policy discussions about public safety and security and spin them into nebulous, unserious suggestions designed to prevent meaningful reforms."