The European problem
On Monday, the Paris administrative court decreed the emergency suspension of this decree, while waiting to see if it is compatible with European law. The court had been seized by the company Hammy Media, owner of the Xhamster site and which had received a warning from Arch on June 12. The Minister of the French Delegate for Artificial and Digital Intelligence, Clara Chappaz, said that France would contest this decision with the Council of State.
On the European level, Minister Chappaz works in close collaboration with the Belgian Federal Minister in charge of digital technology, Vanessa Matz (committed). “”I saw it again this Tuesday in Paris, we support each other. Clara Chappaz is very paid on what is happening in Belgium. She appreciated my positions, on the fact that we had to move forward “ explains the minister.
Currently, the countries of the European Union follow Digital Service Act, a European regulation which “requires pornographic sites to ensure that inappropriate content is not visible by minors.” Vanessa Matz specifies that Europe will work this summer on recommendations that will allow states to act on these questions: “For the moment Europe is working on recommendations on the implementation of the protection of minors on the Internet, be it social networks or pornography. The commission will, probably between mid-July and at the end of July, present to the member states of the avenues of action. These are obviously not taxation, but we hope to have a certain consensus in order to advance everyone in the same direction. “
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What about Belgium?
Unlike France, Belgium has not tried to impose identity checks on the pornographic sites: “We are waiting for this guideline because we would obviously like to try to go in a European sense that is shared. “
Government structures complicate these decision -making: where France just needs to bring its various ministers together to talk about it, the federal must deal with communities and regions. The Minister engaged specifies that “Federated entities do not yet see clearly on what they want. In Flanders, they asked for a little more time on extremely pointed age, blocking, authentication, etc. positions, etc. “
Unlike our French neighbors, Belgium already has an identification system that has proven itself: itsme. With more than 7 million users, the application is used by almost the whole country and “has never undergone data flights by cyber attacks. It is a system that is safe, that works. ” This identification is often what blocks in the debates: “It is that it is very popular to say that we want to protect minors, but it is much less when we approach the need to identify. What are the alternatives? “
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At the origin of the Revenge Porn law, “Vailed internationally as being extremely protective and well fixed “Vanessa Matz pushes today for the regulation of social networks and pornography and hopes that the debates of this summer “will lead to satisfactory results. “
