A petition has even been launched to support Mila.
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Twitter suspended this Sunday for “harassment” the account of the Isère teenager Mila, who has become one of the symbols of persecution on the internet, before going back the next day on his decision in the face of the emotion aroused.
The young girl, who has more than 20,000 subscribers, had posted in the evening old drawings of childhood, before being the target of thousands of messages of insults and threats such as "dirty bitch", "dirty dyke", "Dirty Islamophobe," said his lawyer Richard Malka.
To the weekly Le Point, Mila admits to having answered some, treating the author of one of the messages of "frustrated virgin", which could be at the origin of his suspension by the network.
"It is unbelievable, she is only a victim", noted Me Malka, denouncing "a platform of arbitrariness which refuses to apply French laws, a network without faith or law.
It is as if you were assaulted in the street and that you were convicted of assault ”.
Cedric O to the rescue
On the @magicalorrs page, a white dot replaced the girl's profile picture for a few hours while the message "Twitter suspends accounts that violate Twitter Rules" appeared.
When questioned, the American company admitted "an error".
The decision to intervene was "quashed and access to the account restored".
Which was indeed the case at the end of Monday morning.
For the Secretary of State in charge of the Digital Transition Cédric O, “the reestablishment of the @magicalorrs account by @TwitterFrance comes too late: the double penalty for #mila, constantly harassed.
To protect victims online, regulating social networks is a priority for @gouvernementFR ”.
Speaking on Radio J, the LREM deputy Aurore Bergé also noted "a major regulatory subject on which we feel a little helpless" [...] because dependent "on a certain number of rules which are specific to these social networks".
"When a woman is threatened with death, it is she who is protected"
The suspension of Mila's account had previously sparked a number of indignant reactions on the same platform.
“#Mila @magicalorrs posts a child's drawing, immediately gets yelled at and harassed.
Twitter, listening only to his courage which meant nothing to him, blocks the victim's account under the fanatic applause of the hateful sycophants.
@TwitterFrance you should be ashamed ”, reacted Licra.
Writer Raphaël Enthoven posted: “Meet us @magicalorrs!
When a woman is threatened with death, it is she who is protected.
Not the putative assassins (beware, cons: this is not an insult). # Mila »
Twitter singled out
"By closing the account of a young woman harassed and threatened by the Islamists, #Twitter has chosen the camp of the enemies of democracy" thundered Marine Le Pen.
"It is time to protect freedom of expression in the face of the exorbitant power of these private platforms and their repeated abuses!"
», Said the president of the National Rally.
As for Senator LR Valérie Boyer, she noted that Twitter France "prefers its hateful aggressors to their victim", while the latter is "already deprived of liberty, in permanent danger of death, by the Islamists".
The life of this young girl was turned upside down in January 2020, when she published a video that went viral in which she made virulent criticisms of Islam.
"The Koran there is only hatred in there, Islam is shit", she said in this video, initially broadcast in a personal discussion.
Her words triggered a flood of threats, forcing her to leave her high school in Villefontaine (Isère).
After having been presented to a prosecutor of the national pole of fight against hatred online in February, five people aged between 18 and 29 years old must be judged on June 3 by the correctional court of Paris for "moral harassment" and, for two d 'between them, "death threats".
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