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Is sending fewer emails and watching fewer videos on the web enough to reduce digital pollution?

2020-07-31T17:55:16.116Z


VERIFICATION - The government is preparing an action plan to encourage the French to be more sober in their digital uses, very greedy in energy.


THE QUESTION. Thursday July 30 on the set of the CNews channel, the Secretary of State for Digital, Cédric O, who has just been renewed in the government, detailed several of his priority projects, including that of digital pollution. He encouraged the French to show sobriety in their practices, referring in particular to the current excesses in sending e-mails or watching videos online.

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For the Secretary of State, there would be education and training work to be done in this area which would significantly reduce digital pollution. " We have learned to turn off the light, to turn off the tap, we must also learn, as consumers, to avoid watching videos in a somewhat compulsive manner ," he explained, adding that 'with Barbara Pompilli, her colleague in charge of the ecological transition within the government, they were going to prepare for the start of the school year a plan to reduce the ecological footprint of digital, with a

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Source: lefigaro

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