France will force the suppression of hate messages on the Internet – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

The French government will work on a bill that will be introduced in May to force Internet platforms to take action against hate messages posted by its subscribers, forcing them to withdraw them quickly and identify the perpetrators.

State Secretary for Digital Activity, Mounir Mahjoubi, said on Thursday that the platforms will have "human and technological" media obligations to locate and delete such messages, as well as join those who put them online. that they must answer to justice.

"We can catch them one by one and punish them", explained in an interview to the channel "France Info" Mahjoubi, who noted that networks or social servers now take weeks or months because they have no obligation of results, which will be imposed under the threat d & # 39; fines.

The bill will be drafted by Laetitia Avia, La Republica en Marcha, the party of French President Emmanuel Macron. According to the first filtered elements, the time limit for removal of criminal content will be 24 hours and the amount of fines could reach one million euros.

Mahjoubi has developed the announcements made Wednesday evening by Macron, at the annual dinner of the Council of Representatives of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF), end the tow of antisemitic acts that was checked last yearand especially in the last days.

Macron argued that sanctions would be imposed on the digital society and that the aim is "to be able to prohibit the presence in a social network of people guilty of racist and anti-Semitic statements, because violent supporters in stadiums are prohibited."

Although he ruled out a blanket ban on anonymity on the Internet, he said he wanted "convictions to be published for racist and anti-Semitic acts".