Rip down vile posts

INTERNET giants have been shirking their responsibility to remove extremist and disgusting content for years.

They’re just hosts and therefore can’t control what fanatics upload, they bleat.

This wafer-thin argument rang hollow when fake news and vile content started to affect democracy.

It took the uncovering of a huge data hack for Facebook to even acknowledge that a problem existed.

YouTube has been similarly slow to react.

But the video sharing website has now ripped down eight million unsuitable clips in just three months. We welcome this development.

But ask why it has taken nearly a decade for them to admit a problem that has been allowed to fester for far too long.