what are the alternatives, and how are they not "censorship platforms"?
The more you censor speech the more radicalized people become against the system setting that censorship. It becomes a self perpetuating feedback loop.
Dealing with speech that is, actively encourages, or supports (or engenders fear of in potential victims)¹, such crimes, is exactly what this is trying to get the companies to address.
----
[1] That list being the battery/assault/affray equivalents of hate speech
"Could lead to" is a slippery slope to censoring free speech or even to a Minority Report style of enforcing crimes before they happen.
The EU already tried dozens of times to ban encrypted chat on the same kind of fearmongering, now they're boiling the frog on free speech.
Bad wording on my part, to an extent due to trying to make the battery/assault/affray comparison match better. I've edited it to “directly encourages”, though that is still vague enough to be accused of being the start of a slippery slope.
I know why people worry about the slippery slope, and you should be able to say anything but not expect zero comeback (“free speech, but not speech free of consequences” and all that), so until/unless there are practical consequences (is anyone working on slap-over-IPv4?) we need to compromise and start blocking things somewhere along that slope.
and how many times has happened actual crimes that eu politicans have been lately hiding ?