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The court ordered Free, SFR, Orange and Bouygues and five other Internet service providers to block the "Participatory Democracy" site, which is considered racist and anti-Semitic. A first in France.
Tuesday, November 27, 2018, the French justice has taken a decision unpublished. The "Participatory Democracy" site will now be blocked in France. The public prosecutor has summoned nine operators including SFR, Free, Orange and Bouygues Telecom. He orders the blocking "Definitive and unlimited" site deemed racist and anti-Semitic.
This is the first time that justice forces internet service providers to block a website. The decision rendered Tuesday, November 27, 2018 and consulted by 20 minutes states:
The blocking measure can be pronounced when public order is threatened, which can not be disputed by reading the hateful publications mentioned above, which are words of extreme violence and which at the same time exhort the pbadage violent acts against persons because of religion, origin or badual orientation.
Participatory democracy, an "abject site"
Justice gives French operators 15 days to block the "Participatory Democracy" site. The decision specifies that the blocking costs will be borne by the public prosecutor.
Nevertheless, if the site is blocked in France, it does not mean that it is completely closed. Being hosted in the United States "Only the host is able to stop the service, that is to say to put an end to the disputed remarks, Internet service providers not being able to permanently delete a site, but only to to secure the blockage ".
Nevertheless, Maître Rémi-Pierre Drai, lawyer of the baron of Grenoble Denis Dreyfus (targeted by the site in an anti-Semitic article), is satisfied with this decision:
I am extremely satisfied, it is a real first that allows to stop this absolutely obvious disorder to the social life represented by this abject site.
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