Question 17951 — digital

Summary

Mr. Rémy Rebeyrotte alerts the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, to the insults, defamation and “fox” which thrive in complete legal tranquility on social networks, relying on the at least partial impunity that anonymity offers them. Social networks must be considered today as a medium of great magnitude, in the same way that emails are what daily mail was before. The media are subject to specific law, that of July 29, 1881 on freedom of the press, a law which is accompanied by a necessary code of ethics: one cannot defame, insult or knowingly lie without risking conviction. The damage is all the greater as digital technology has significant diffusion power. The end of anonymity in expression, as is the case in the press, and the recognition of the responsibility of the Internet user and the society which publish and disseminate hitherto anonymous “fox” would make it possible to clean up what has become unspeakable and sometimes incredibly violent against many people. We should be able to inform, in a private capacity, an actor in the network so that he can carry out the necessary investigations, just as we can inform the press which, through its journalists, verifies and cross-checks the information and ensures its accuracy. veracity. This would involve limiting the public, massive or even viral dissemination of unverified, even deliberately false and harmful data, under the cover of anonymity. He would like to know what she intends to do on these particularly important questions.

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