The government will organizeover the next few days“A meeting between cyber victims, video game industry officials, streaming platforms and major social networks: “stop this unacceptable online hate“, the Minister of Digitization announced on Tuesday.
With the delegate of the Minister of Gender Equality, Isabel Rom.I hope that in the coming days we will gather all the interested actors (…).“identify”What could be the right solutions (to) end this unacceptable online hate?“, declared Digital Transition Minister Jean-Noël Baron at the opening of Paris Games Week, the main French fair in the field.
A recurring theme
A lot of creeps have rocked the world of French broadcasters in recent days, these video game players who share and comment on their games live. Several female figures, with strong evidence, have denounced the sexist and sexual cyberbullying they have been subjected to for years online.
On YouTube, as on Twitch and other platforms, this topic is not new and very repetitive, lamented broadcasters before the channel.Me toois already five years old.
Mainly appearing on Twitch, which is owned by giant Amazon, the main French-speaking streamers are male characters such as Squeezie and ZeratoR, whose channels have had a correspondingly high audience of between one million and 700,000 viewers.
Having signed up to the European Union’s code of conduct against online hate in June, Twitch announced in December 2021 the creation of a system to detect malicious users following a spate of racist and homophobic abuse.
The EU code of conduct against online hate, launched in 2016, has around ten signatories, including Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Dailymotion, Jeuxvideo.com, TikTok and LinkedIn, as well as messaging app Viber.
Source: Le Figaro
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