Once again, someone‘s suggesting the best way to combat the spread of terrorist-related communications online is to make the tech companies do it, have them foot the bill, and do it all without being legislated into submission or making impudent comments like „That‘s not how any of this works.“

Traveling beyond the groundwork of „necessary hashtags“ and constant threats to bludgeon tech companies into mandatory, worldwide speech policing, the UK‘s independent reviewer of terrorism laws — former key terrorism prosecutor Max Hill QC — suggests the better route lies not through legislation, but through some sort of tech wizardry.