The president of the Arcom, a digital regulator in France, said on Sunday, August 24 that his organization had no “direct competition” to avoid distribution on the Australian platform Kick of the Jean Pormanove Chain, a victim of abuse for several months and died on Monday, August 18.
This authority was attacked by a very severe criticism of its action, while the violence suffered by this 46 -year -old man, Raphaël tax of his real name, had been revealed in December 2024 in a Mediapart article.
A chain reactivated for research, according to Kick
While Jean Pormanove’s chain was no longer accessible since August 18, Kick decided to eliminate this block a few days later to allow the authorities to discover possible deficiencies. The arch called Kick to restore the blockade of the chain as soon as possible and announced that “it will examine all the possibilities of action” otherwise. But it is still very helpless in this case, as its president Martin Adolin today indicates today.
As for the regulator, “the law does not ask you to evaluate the legality of the content online by people (which is the judge), nor request the withdrawal,” he said. Its role, under the moderation imposed by European regulations, is “to ensure that the platforms comply with these media obligations and initiate, if necessary, the sanction procedures against those installed in France.”
“This mission is a considerable scale, on the scale of the scope of the services and online content. The twenty agents that the Arcom could recruit for this purpose dedicated all its energy,” Martin Ajdari insisted.
“A new necessary phase in digital regulation”
Raphaël Graven died during a live broadcast in Tales, near Nice, on August 18, after more than 12 days of life that showed him, as well as another man, abused and humiliated by two other people.
On Thursday, Nice prosecutor said the autopsy had excluded “the intervention of a third party”, namely that the two forensic doctors had not noticed “traumatic injuries.” The causes of death, “of medical and/or toxicological origin”, remain to be determined.
For Martin Ajdari, “that these videos could remain online for long months, without any new report, it is obviously incomprehensible. It is a sign that a new phase in the regulation of digital is now necessary, so that we can no longer collectively miss such a situation.”
According to the minister’s delegate in charge of digital technology, Clara Chappaz, Kick has only 75 people, including none of whom speaks French, to guarantee the moderation of hundreds of thousands of transmissions every day.
Source: BFM TV
