The Government will organize “in the next few days” a meeting between victims of cyberbullying, leaders of the video game industry, streaming platforms and main social networks, to “end this unacceptable hatred on the network,” the minister announced on Tuesday. Digital.
With the Delegate Minister for Gender Equality, Isabelle Rome, “I hope that we will bring together all the actors involved (…) in the coming days” to identify “what may be the correct solutions (to) put an end to this hatred in unacceptable line”, announced Jean-Noël Barrot, Delegate Minister for the Digital Transition, at the opening of Paris Games Week, the main French fair in the sector.
many testimonials
A multitude of chilling testimonies have shaken the world of French streamers in recent days, those video game players who share and comment on their games live.
Several female figures have denounced, with supporting evidence, the sexist and sexual cyberviolence they have suffered for years on the networks.
On YouTube as on Twitch and other platforms, this theme is not new and too recurrent, streamers lamented when the “MeToo” wave is already five years old.
At the beginning of 2021, a specialized unit to combat online hate was created within the Paris prosecutor’s office, while the general public can report illegal behavior and content on the Pharos platform since 2009.
Signatory in June of the European Union’s code of conduct against online hate, Twitch announced in December 2021 the establishment of a system to detect malicious users, after a wave of racist and homophobic harassment.
Source: BFM TV
