As they begin to calm down riots due to protests against the easy trigger case, after a policeman killed a 17 year old teenagerthe French government seeks to reduce violence from social networks. Although they ruled out applying a “general blackout”, consider “suspending” some of their functions.
In this sense, he added: “We must reflect on the use of these networks among the youngestin families, at school, on the prohibitions that we must adopt“Macron said in statements confirmed by his office, according to the French news agency AFP.
“When things get out of hand for a while, we say to ourselves: ‘Maybe we are putting ourselves in a situation of regulating or cutting them. It is important not to do it on the spur of the moment. I’m glad we didn’t have to,'” she added.
However, the proposal was not very well received. The French political leadership was very critical of Macron’s measure: “Cut off access to social media? Like China, Iran, North Korea?“, assured the right-wing deputy Olivier Marleix. “OK Kim Jong Un“said his leftist counterpart Mathilde Panot ironically.
From the Government they responded to these statements and pointed out that Macron did not say “at no time did he consider cutting off social networks in the sense of a general blackout”, but referred to “to be able to temporarily and punctually suspend“. In a press conference, the presidential spokesman explained that one of the functions that could be “suspended” would be geolocation.
In his opinion, this function allows “young people to gather in a certain place, showing scenes of how to make a fire.” “Are calls to organize hate in public space and here you have the authority to be able to suspend,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Ministries of the Interior and Justice they sent hundreds of requests to the big platforms to cancel illegal contentsuch as calls for violent acts or disclosure of personal data of police officers.
They summoned on Friday the representatives of TikTok, Snapchat, Twitter and Meta (Facebook and Instagram) and expressed: “We have subjected them to a enormous pressure to remove illegal content and they responded very quickly to the requests”, the source specified. The collaboration with the platforms “was very good”.
The government also asked the platforms exercise “maximum vigilance over functionalities that can be diverted to disturb public order“, the Minister Delegate for the Digital Transition and Telecommunications, Jean-Noël Barrot, explained to Challenges magazine.
On June 27, the death of a 17-year-old shot by police during a traffic control in a suburb of Paris provoked a outbreak of violence with thousands of arrests and burned cars, which gradually calmed down in the last few nights.
Source: Ambito
