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Tabled by Laurent Marcangeli, an MP from the Horizons party, the bill “to establish digital majority and combat online hate” was adopted by the National Assembly at its first reading on 2 March 2023. During the parliamentary debate, it was revealed that, while 82% of children aged between 10 and 14 regularly use the Internet without their parents, more than 50% of them are active on social media, for which they first register at the age of 8 and a half on average. Therefore, even though a minimum age is stipulated, 60% of under-13s have a social network account. In the MPs’...

On 5 February 2023, the French deputy minister for digital affairs announced that France is planning to introduce an age certification system in order to prevent children accessing pornographic video platforms. However, the details of the system, which will involve a digital certification process, have not yet been finalised. The protection of personal data is a major challenge for the future system. Since the web is designed as an open network, freely accessible without the need for authentication, checking users’ ages poses significant technical difficulties and is open to circumvention....

The European Court of Human Rights has recently dealt with two applications concerning two sanctions imposed against the television channel C8 by the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (French audiovisual regulator — CSA) and confirmed by the Conseil d’État, following content broadcast in the programme “Touche pas à mon poste”. In the first of the disputed clips, broadcast on 7 December 2016, the programme’s host had been shown playing a game with one of its female pundits in which, with her eyes closed, her hand had been placed on part of...

On 9 February 2023, ARCOM (the French audiovisual and digital communications regulator) fined television channel C8 EUR 3.5 Million following remarks made during its programme “Touche pas à mon poste” broadcast on 10 November 2022. French MP Louis Boyard (of the ‘La France Insoumise’ political party), a former pundit on the programme, had been invited to talk about the reception of migrants on board a humanitarian ship. When he began discussing the unequal distribution of wealth and the activities in Africa of Vincent Bolloré, shareholder of the Canal+ group,...

ARCOM (the French audiovisual and digital communications regulator) has issued a formal notice to the television channel C8, urging it to guarantee the independence of information following comments made during the programme “Touche pas à mon poste” broadcast on 10 November 2022. French MP Louis Boyard (of the ‘La France Insoumise’ political party), a former pundit on the programme, had been invited to talk about the reception of migrants on board a humanitarian ship. When the MP began discussing the unequal distribution of wealth and, in the same context, the activities...