A meeting with streaming platforms and social networks will be organized in the coming days, after a new wave of testimonies from content creators who have been victims of harassment and gender-based violence.
The government will organizein the next few days» a meeting between victims of cyberbullying, video game industry officials, streaming platforms and major social networks, to «stop this unacceptable online hate“, announced Tuesday the Minister of Digital.
With the Minister Delegate for Gender Equality Isabelle Rome, “I hope that we will bring together all the actors concerned (…) in the coming days” to identify “what can be the right solutions (in order to) put an end to this unacceptable online hatred“, announced Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister Delegate for the Digital Transition, at the opening of Paris Games Week, the main French fair in the sector.
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A recurring subject
A multitude of chilling testimonies have shaken the world of French streamers in recent days, these video game players who share and comment on their games live. Several female figures have denounced, with supporting evidence, the sexist and sexual cyberviolence they have suffered for years on the networks.
On YouTube as on Twitch and other platforms, this subject is not new and far too recurrent, lamented the streamers while the wave “MeToois already five years old.
Present mainly on Twitch, owned by the giant Amazon, the main French-speaking streamers are male figures like Squeezie and ZeratoR, whose channels have experienced respective peak audiences of one million and 700,000 viewers.
Signatory in June of the European Union’s code of conduct against online hate, Twitch announced in December 2021 the establishment of a system to detect malicious users, after a wave of racist and homophobic harassment.
The EU’s 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 the Viber messaging app.
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