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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...

On 13 and 15 July 2022, alleging that minors could access the pornographic websites Pornhub, Tukif, Xhamster, Xnxx and Xvideos simply by stating that they were aged 18 or over, in violation of Article 227-24 of the Penal Code, the president of ARCOM (the French audiovisual and digital communications regulator) summoned numerous Internet access providers to appear before the president of the Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris (Paris judicial court) on the basis of Article 23 of Law no. 2020-936 of 30 July 2020 and asked the court to order them to block access to the sites concerned. During the proceedings,...

The company responsible for TV channel CNews asked the Conseil d’Etat (Council of State) to annul the decision taken by the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (French audiovisual regulatory body — CSA) on 3 December 2021, requiring it to comply before 31 December 2021 and in the future with the provisions of Article 1 of its decision no. 2017-62 of 22 November 2017 on the principle of political pluralism in radio and television services. Under this decision, a third of airtime devoted to political speeches must be reserved for speeches by the president of the Republic, government...