France’s Top Cop Has More to Teach Silicon Valley

France’s top cop is coming for another visit to Silicon Valley -- but this time it’s a victory lap. A year after French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve went to California to demand that Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter do more to scour the Internet for potential terrorist propaganda, Cazeneuve plans in February to head back for another visit to praise how deeply tech firms are cooperating with French police–and to offer lessons to the US for doing the same. “France has been a pioneer,” Cazenueve said. “There is now a wide-ranging and effective dialogue based on mutual trust between the French government and Internet companies.”

It’s a far cry from his rhetoric a year ago, when Cazeneuve said at the same conference that Internet companies had to “take responsibility” for the “major problem” of extremist content that groups like Islamic State use to find recruits. Following 2015’s visit, French officials and US companies to agreed in April to an accelerated process for police to ask companies to remove terrorist content. During his forthcoming visit, Cazeneuve says he will meet with US firms to “update our level of cooperation,” and also get together with US Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to discuss their recent push to curb terrorist content on social media. “The US now also wants to work with operators to counteract terrorist content on the Internet,” Cazeneuve said. “Our audacity has paid off, and now we’re schooling others, and I’m very happy about that.”