French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has met with officials from Facebook, Google and Twitter in a one-day trip to Silicon Valley, imploring the internet companies to work with the French government on blocking terrorist organizations.

The move comes a few weeks after the French government allowed terrorist websites -- a broad term by the government -- to be put on the same level as child pornography.

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This law was tried in early 2014 but the French public went against it. But now the public and politicians have warmed to more punishments against terrorist organizations following the Charlie Hebdo attacks.

"We emphasized that when an investigation is underway we don't want to go through the usual government to government channels, which can take so long," Cazeneuve said. "It's important to have full cooperation and quick reaction."

Currently, all three internet companies deal with governments at the same time. The French government, however, wants special access to block content deemed offensive.

It might be a heated topic at the moment but internet companies in the past haven't bartered government privileges, giving all groups the same access to banning or removing content.

"We regularly host ministers and other governmental officials from across the world at Facebook, and were happy to welcome Mr. Cazeneuve today," a Facebook spokesperson said. "We work aggressively to ensure that we do not have terrorists or terror groups using the site, and we also remove any content that praises or supports terrorism."

The Facebook spokesperson didn't confirm special privileges would be given however, and neither did Google or Twitter. It sounds like the internet companies aren't happy with the idea of additional services for governments to block content.

Terrorism is a broad term and giving governments too much control could be disastrous, especially if not supervised. Governments have a tendency to call internal leaks, anti-government and potentially anti-religious sites "terrorism", which is why internet companies should always have the final say.

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