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"I would like to join grandfather and be in peace": at the heart of the listening cell for cyberbullyed children

2021-03-24T10:37:50.110Z


REPORT - Hacking, blackmail on the webcam, repeated insults, suicide attempts ... Young people listening to Net Écoute sometimes receive up to 90 "calls for help" during the day, especially in this period of pandemic.


In a family apartment in the first arrondissement of Paris, Luc *, coordinator of the listening cell against cyberbullying, tries to defuse a situation of "

doxing

", a practice which consists of disseminating personal data on the Internet: "

A child has been filmed without his knowledge while he was pretending to "practice a religion",

"he tells us.

The video was then shared on Twitter.

Internet users try to geolocate him by finding his address or college, and threaten him.

"

Here, the child is in danger so we try to act quickly to remove all traces of these images on the networks before malicious people seize this information, which could lead to physical violence.

".

Luc notably makes the link with the case of Samuel Paty, who had also been located by Internet users with the practice of "

doxing

".

Read also: Assassination of Samuel Paty: the teenager at the origin of the controversy confessed to having lied

This situation, the Net Écoute team of the e-Enfance association is confronted with every day.

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Source: lefigaro

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