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May 15, 2020 10:00 am

France Passes Law Forcing Online Platforms To Delete Hate-Speech Content Within 24 Hours

France's lower chamber has passed a controversial law that will require social networks and online platforms remove flagged hate speech within 24 hours. If companies do not comply, they will have to pay hefty fines every time they infringe the law. Other more extreme content, such as terrorist content and child pornography, will require online platforms react within an hour. TechCrunch reports: While online hate speech has been getting out of control, many fear that online platforms will censor content a bit too quickly. Companies don't want to risk a fine so they might delete content that doesn't infringe the law just because they're not sure. Essentially, online platforms have to regulate themselves. The government then checks whether they're doing a good job or not. "It's just like banking regulators. They check that banks have implemented systems that are efficient, and they audit those systems. I think that's how we should think about it," France's digital minister Cedric O told me in an interview last year. There are multiple levels of fines. It starts at hundreds of thousand of euros but it can reach up to 4% of the global annual revenue of the company with severe cases. The Superior Council of the Audiovisual (CSA) is the regulator in charge of those cases. Germany has already passed similar regulation and there are ongoing discussions at the European Union level.

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