Right now anyone can sign up for social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and so on. Anyone can also post anything they want, and while some things are forbidden to be posted, it can make it past automated filters which allows them to be seen by others even if for a brief moment.We’ve seen tech companies like Facebook and Twitter take a stance on their platforms being used to spread hate speech, but it seems that it might not be enough. In a report from Reuters, it seems that France wants tougher rules on hate speech made on social media platforms, where they want social media companies to do more.
According to French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, “These days a newspaper director is criminally responsible if hateful comments are posted on its website but if you run a social network anything goes. Nobody is going to convince me that the social networks live in space. What gets published and circulated in France is published and circulated in France and must answer to the laws of the French republic.”
Philippe also went on to state that the country would be tightening up its own rules, but stopped short on elaborating on when and how they will be enforced.
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