France, Germany Seek Help From Tech Firms in Policing Terrorism Online

France and Germany demanded that US tech companies help them police terrorism on the Internet, escalating European efforts to wrangle more law-enforcement help from Silicon Valley.

Top law-enforcement officials from the two countries said they expect US Internet and social-networking companies like Twitter, Facebook and Google to pre-emptively remove terror content from their services -- or face new laws aimed at forcing them to do so. At stake is where these global firms draw the line of acceptable discussion, and how far they must go to enforce local laws limiting online speech.