Censorship is paved with good intentions. The Avia law intended to fight against hate speech online responds to a fair observation with the worst answers.
The observation? Our networks (can we still qualify them as social?) Do not obey any of the civil, fiscal, criminal rules that govern our societies. The insult, the threat, the harassment, the lynching are unleashed there without brake: they are zones of lawlessness. These platforms that live on information are relieved of all the responsibilities that the law imposes on newspapers, radios and televisions. The answer? Rather than applying our laws to these masked media, the majority decided to tip our law into the machinery of the Gafam. Google, Facebook, Twitter must clean their homes before the judge even decides. To avoid the fine, it is written, their censorship will be preventive.
Second fault: the reason. The law claims to prevent hate speech. No one likes hate but everyone
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