Conflans attack: Jean Castex wants to create a "crime of endangerment" on the internet
Prime Minister Jean Castex during a press conference, September 3, 2020. Ludovic Marin / Pool via REUTERS
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Social networks, often used to disseminate hate messages, find themselves once again in the spotlight after the assassination of history and geography professor Samuel Paty, but fear of affecting freedom of expression makes initiatives difficult .
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Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Tuesday October 20 that he wanted to create a new offense of “
endangering the publication of personal data
” on the internet.
"
We can no longer bring ourselves to passively witness the unleashing of hatred on social networks,
" he said during the questioning session to the government.
The Minister in charge of Citizenship Marlène Schiappa for her part announced that the government was reactivating "
the permanent contact group
" set up in 2015 with the main social networks for "
a mobilization and a joint response of the State and platforms against cyber-Islamism
”.
This contact group was created by Bernard Cazeneuve, then Minister of the Interior, as part of the fight against Daesh propaganda.
"
I want social networks to take their responsibility
" to eliminate hateful content, she hammered on RTL on Tuesday, before receiving the French representatives of Facebook, Google / YouTube, Twitter, Tiktok and Snapchat.
The teachers of the college of Bois d'Aulne,
colleagues of Samuel Paty,
also noted the role of social networks in a statement published Tuesday.
They do not directly blame the networks in the death of their colleague, but rather blame them for the creation of a deleterious general atmosphere in schools.
“
We express our deep concern about the impact of social networks.
The speed with which information is disseminated to the greatest number, and its irreversible aspect, are a real scourge in the exercise of our profession,
”they declare.
(With AFP)
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