Grandvilliers (France) (AFP)
The Minister of National Education promised Monday that "a new step" would be taken in the fight against cyberstalking, in particular through enhanced cooperation with platforms, after threats and insults aimed at the social networks of students born in 2010 .
"We are going to take a new step in raising awareness," assured Jean-Michel Blanquer during a visit to a college in Grandvilliers in the Aisne, saying "launching an appeal to the whole of French society" and wishing "a start for the fraternity to prevent a teenager, a child, from feeling alone, isolated, badly because of that ".
Last week, the main federation of parents of pupils, the FCPE, had asked the government to "act urgently" because the sixth-graders born in 2010 had "become the target of campaigns of insults, harassment and cyberstalking ”, especially through the hashtag # anti2010.
The TikTok France platform then assured to have removed "all hashtags" aimed at harassing these students.
"What just happened with the attempts to bully 6th grade students should alert us all to bounce back the other way, whether with that hashtag # BienvenueAux2010 [launched last week], but au- beyond this initiative, going much further, through a strengthened relationship with the platforms, "said the Minister of Education.
"We are talking with the platforms so that they are more and more civic and that they fully play their role in the fight against harassment," he continued.
Assuring that the government had taken this subject "head on from the start of the five-year term", he also mentioned the "Phare" program, tested for two years in six academies and generalized in this return.
"We ask some college students to be ambassadors against harassment" and staff are also trained on these subjects, detailed the minister.
Parents must also be involved in this process through workshops.
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