The question of the responsibility of social networks and their control did not stop coming up in the debate, after several days of violence throughout the territory. The minister responsible for the Digital Transition, Jean-Noël Barrot, has promised the constitution of a “cross-partisan and egalitarian” working group, which could meet next Wednesday.
The recommendations that it will formulate could be adopted during the examination of the text in the National Assembly, after the summer recess of Parliament.
Adapt DMA and DSA
The bill makes it possible to adapt French legislation to the new European regulations DMA (Digital Markets Law) and DSA (Digital Services Law). These impose new rules on the largest digital players in terms of abuse of dominant position or regulation of problematic content.
It also aims to strengthen the protection of the most vulnerable in the digital world. Increases the powers of the Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication (Arcom) in the fight against access by minors to pornographic sites. You can order the blocking, without a judge’s decision, of pornographic sites that do not verify the age of their visitors.
In the face of multiple scam attempts via email or SMS, the bill establishes a free “anti-scam filter” that sends a warning message to anyone about to enter a site identified as malicious.
The text also provides for a new additional penalty of “banishment” from a network that a judge can pronounce when convicting a person of online hate acts, cyberbullying or other serious crimes.
“Online contempt crime”
The Senate has expanded the scope of the crimes in question, including threats and intimidation against elected officials. He has also wanted to create “an online contempt crime”, punishable with a fixed fine (AFD) of 300 euros.
The upper house has given the green light to government amendments that explicitly target “deepfakes” or “hyper-faking”, synthesis techniques that allow the creation of misleading videos or images.
The text still includes provisions to regulate the cloud. Among other measures, a platform is planned to centralize the data related to furnished tourist accommodation for rent in each municipality. And a beginning of regulation of games with monetizable digital objects (Jonum), “at the crossroads of leisure games and games of money and chance”.
Source: BFM TV
