Question 9557 — digital

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The Government considers the subject to be fundamental. Online hatred cannot go unpunished. This is why a mission on racism and anti-Semitism online was entrusted to MP Laetitia Avia, Gilles Taieb and Karim Amellal. Their conclusions are expected by the end of July and will make it possible to take stock of legislative developments and in particular with regard to law no. 2004-575 of June 21, 2004 for confidence in the digital economy (LCEN), applied in 2006. The objective of this mission is to take into account the entire process: from informing platform users to supporting victims, including issues of reporting content, qualifying content, action on content such as removal. It also focuses on other tracks like the end of the highlight or the delisting, as well as the possibility for law enforcement to initiate legal proceedings. At the same time, an inter-administration working group co-led by the State Secretariat for Digital and the Ministry of the Interior has been working on this subject for several months. The working group's work initially focused on terrorist content before extending to online hate content. Moreover, as announced by the Prime Minister, France will defend a European legislative initiative to build the legal framework for platform responsibility. In fact, it is considered that we cannot continue with a legal framework dating from the 2000s making a binary distinction between, on the one hand, content publishers who are responsible for it and, on the other, technical hosts whose responsibility is very limited. National legislation will be amended by exploiting all the room for maneuver that exists, for example by making it possible to impose the closure of accounts which have massively and repeatedly disseminated illicit content, or by allowing pseudonymous investigations into racist and anti-Semitic offenses on the Internet.

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