Dieudonné deprived of TikTok. The popular youth platform has banned the polemicist, repeatedly convicted of his hate speech, from its network, following in the footsteps of its competitors YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.
"Dieudonné's account has been banned from the platform," a spokesperson for TikTok France told AFP on Wednesday, without detailing the reasons for this ban. Beyond this particular case, the network would like to point out that "TikTok has a very strict moderation policy and that all content that does not respect its rules is banned from the application".
Sentenced by justice for his hate speech
Frédéric Potier, the interministerial delegate for the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT hatred, greeted this ban on Twitter and called on the blue bird network to do the same. Several other online platforms have already banned Dieudonné from their users since the beginning of the summer, in the name of the fight against hate content.
I welcome @tiktok_France's decision to ban Dieudonné from its network. @TwitterFrance @AHerblin: what are you waiting for? @DILCRAH
- Frédéric Potier (@FPotier_Dilcrah) August 10, 2020YouTube (which belongs to Google) got the ball rolling at the end of June by deleting the polemicist's channel, due to repeated violations of its rules. Facebook and its Instagram subsidiary followed suit in early August and banned him in turn, accusing him of having published "content mocking the victims of the Shoah" and used "dehumanizing terms against Jews. ".
Accustomed to the courts, Dieudonné has been condemned several times by the courts for his hate speech. His last conviction was in November: he had been fined 9,000 euros for complicity in an anti-Semitic insult, after the publication of a video and a song entitled “C'est mon choaaa”.
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