/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

Translation from: https://www.ouest-france.fr/societe/racisme/racisme-edouard-philippe-promet-un-systeme-de-pre-plainte-en-ligne-avant-l-ete-5631191

The french law will be amended to "strengthen the obligations of detection, reporting, deletion and prevention of illegal content" on the internet, announced the Prime Minister, Monday, March 19, presenting the new plan of the executive against racism and anti-semitism.
"All united against hatred". This is the leitmotiv displayed on monday morning by the Prime Minister, who presented the new government plan against racism and anti-semitism at the National Museum of the History of Immigration in Paris. French law will be amended "to strenghten the obligations of detection, reporting, deletion and prevention of illegal content" on the Internet, said Edouard Philippe.
As announced by Emmanuel Macron in early March, France will also "fight" for a legislative project at the European level forcing operators of the net, including social networks, to quickly remove the "torrent of mud" content "hate, racist or anti-semitic", confirmed the head of the government. This European plan, "we are not going to be content to hope for it. We have to fight. And we will fight", he assured.
But "without waiting" for the completion of this community project, the national legislation will be modified. "We have room for maneuver. Margins that strengthen bonds", said Philippe. Announced for months, this second plan (2018-2020) follows a first device launched in a context of surge of anti-semitic and anti-muslim acts after the attacks of January 2015.
"I will never be made to believe that social networks are spaces above ground. For me, everything that is published and broadcoast in France, is published and broadcast in France. And must therefore meet the laws of the Republic", said the Prime Minister, surrounded by eight members of the government. "What annoys me is that nowadays, it seems easier to remove the pirate video of a football game than antisemitic remarks", he insisted.
A mission entrusted to the Franco-Algerian teacher Karim Amellal, to the deputy LREM Laetitia Avia and the vice-president of the Crif (Representative Council of Jewish institutions of France) Gil Taïeb who will work on these legislative changes.
Considered: heavy fines, like in Germany, against social networks that do not remove hate speech within 24 hours, the "closure of the accounts having disseminated massively and repeatedly" hate speech. Or "the survey under pseudonym" of cyber-investigators on online chat rooms. This last measure will be included in the draft law on justice to be presented in the Council of Ministers on April 18th.
As already mentioned by Edouard Philippe, the possibility will be studied to allow a complainant to qualify himself the motive racist or anti-semitic of his aggression, as in the United Kingdom. "We need victims to complain. Without complaint, no investigation, no manager, no penalty. By the end of the semester, we will make operational an online pre-complaint system for racist and antisemitic offenses", he promised.
To better take into account the victims, the state will experiment in September to create a network of investigators and magistrates specifically trained in the fight against hate.
With the fight against cyberhate in need of additional resources, the government is also planning to strengthen the staff of the PHAROS illicit content reporting platform. Similarly, people sentenced to community service work could be assigned to associations to moderate and report hate speech.
Finally, on the educational aspect, the plan provides for the creation of a "national response team" to assist teachers and field workers confronted with conflict situations.
While welcoming "the fact that the government has focused" on hatred on the internet, the president of the Consistory Israelite, Joel Mergui, regretted that this topic is dissociated from the fight against Islamist radicalization. "Even if the fight against racism and anti-semitism requires other means, it is an integral part of this fight", he said. The president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (Crif), Francis Kalifat, said it's "important to expand this fight on a European scale". But "what we would have wanted is an announcement that goes a step further and draws more heavily from what Germany has done", he continued.
As for Samuel Thomas, of the anti-racist association "Maison des potes", he took note of a plan that "goes in the right direction". "Now, the stalking of racist or anti-semitic speech, it requires much more means than what is today", he said.
This plan will benefit from "protected means", according to Edouard Philippe, even if a state inspection mission could only indentify 40 million euros of the 100 announced in 2015 under the first device. "It is a priority policy, it is preserved", said the interministerial delegate to the fight against racism and anti-semitism (Dilcrah), Frédéric Potier.
The number of hate incidents declined in 2017 for the second year in a row in France. But this global decline masks the increase in the number of violent actions. And the statistics do not reflect the "surge of hatred that is expressed daily on the internet," according to the Prime Minister.





To make it short, the french government want to put in place a system of denunciation against racism online and they hope the European union will follow. It's just censorship and they obviously want to take our money by heavy fines. The "funny" thing is that in France, it's easy to be a racist.

>be against islam, quotes the qoran and say it's a bad thing => racism
>claim there is too much migrants in France => racism
>complain about the algerian flags in the street during the national holiday => racism
>etc