Now, according to a report in the Financial Times, the European Commission has decided to scrap a voluntary approach to ensure firms remove content. This will apparently be replaced with a much starker draft regulation, which will be published in September. EU commissioner for security, Julian King, said that lawmakers had not seen adequate progress on the removal of terrorist material. He added that Brussels would now “take stronger action in order to better protect our citizens”. Despite efforts from the likes of these companies to remove content swiftly, there is still plenty slipping through the cracks. According to a study by Counter Extremism Project, ISIS member and supporters uploaded 1,348 YouTube videos between March and June of this year. 24pc of these videos were left on the platform for more than two hours, allowing for the content to be copied and distributed across other online platforms.