Negotiations conducted at European level to force digital platforms to quickly remove terrorist content online must "be
successful as soon as possible,
" Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday (October 28th).
It is "
urgent and necessary that the European negotiations on the removal of terrorist content from the Internet, within one hour, can be completed as quickly as possible
", declared the Head of State to the press at the after a meeting with the Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas at the Élysée.
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The implementation of a regulation at the level of the European Union is currently the subject of discussions between the European Parliament and the Member States, focusing in particular on freedom of expression and the means of regulating platforms.
For Emmanuel Macron, “
terrorist content is not illegal content like any other: it is murderous, it is highly viral.
It is therefore a major security issue in view of the terrorist threat that we are all facing
”.
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He was speaking nearly two weeks after the beheading of Professor Samuel Paty in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, who had been the target of social networks and an online mobilization for showing his 4th year students caricatures of Muhammad during a course on freedom of expression.
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Prime Minister Jean Castex insisted, in Brussels on October 23, on the urgency of a “
much stronger regulation
” of social networks at European level, following a meeting with the European Commissioner for the Internal Market and in Digital, Thierry Breton, who is due to present legislation on December 2 to better regulate platforms.
After lunch with Emmanuel Macron, Juri Ratas affirmed
his country's
“
solidarity
” with France for the defense of “
republican values
” and “
against radicalism
” Islamist.
The two presidents signed a "
strategic partnership
" to strengthen cooperation between Paris and Tallinn "
in terms of security, defense, cybersecurity, energy and climate
", according to Emmanuel Macron, recalling that Estonia had "
developed recognized expertise
”against cyber attacks.
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