On Thursday 1 June, the European Commissioner for Justice, Vera Jourova, described the results of the second evaluation of the Code of Conduct set in place to fight hate speech peddled on the Internet as encouraging. In May 2016, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Google undertook to examine, in under 24 hours, most of the valid notifications of illegal hate speech and take down this content or block access to it, if necessary, on the basis of the national legislations transposing European...