France: Social networks must help stamp out promotion of violence
France appealed on Thursday for UN member states to work together on an international legal framework that would make social network providers share responsibility for the use of their platforms to spread messages promoting violence.
"There are hate videos, calls for death, propaganda that has not been responded to, and we need to respond," Harlem Desir, French state secretary for European affairs, told reporters on the sidelines of a UN General Assembly meeting on the rising threat of anti-Semitism.
"We must limit the dissemination of these messages," Desir said. "We must ... establish a legal framework so the Internet platforms, the large companies managing social networking, so that they're called upon to act responsibly."
Michael Roth, German minister of state for Europe, echoed Desir's remarks.
"We need a clear legal framework for the EU and on the international level," Roth said.
