>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.<p>Your appointed bureaucrats in Brussels will decide what you can and can't say on the Internet, and if you're lucky, they'll just ban you if you step out of line.<p>How long until real, honest discourse goes back to Usenet, out of the reach of our corporate overlords?