Bernard Cazeneuve California to convince the giants of the Net – Echoes

The interior minister met Friday in Silicon Valley Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter. Objective: to strengthen existing cooperation

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articles_associes!> itemprop = “ArticleBody”> How to end the jihadist propaganda on the Internet? Convinced that the Internet is one of the main terrorist recruitment channels, Bernard Cazeneuve visited Silicon Valley last week to meet the giants of the Net. The interior minister has chained Friday appointments, meeting successively Bud Tribble, vice president of technology at Apple and Rachel Whetstone and David Drummond, Google’s two pillars, in charge of public affairs and business development . Bernard Cazeneuve then made a stop at Facebook and Twitter to see Elliott Schrag, and Collin Crowell, both vice president of institutional relations.

He praised the cooperation of these giants with the French authorities, especially since the attacks against Charlie Hebdo, noting that they “withdraw faster and more efficiently than before content “. The reaction time is now chiffrerait in quarters of an hour against months previously. So Microsoft had delivered in 45 minutes the Hotmail content in connection with the attacks in January. The French government had gone through international judicial cooperation, and it was the FBI who had sent Microsoft. Google, which has publicly told “support the French government” was deleted videos at the request of the French authorities following the attacks (According to Rachel Whetstone, Vice President for Public Affairs of Google, YouTube has removed from its platform last year, 14 million videos containing violence or incitement to hatred).

Develop against speech

“There are millions of exchanged tweets on Twitter, there are millions of images posted on YouTube, we will not ask companies to set up overstaffing teams (to control the content), everyone plays their part “, explained Bernard Cazeneuve out of these appointments on Friday, adding that the police and gendarmerie forces play a proactive role in alerting systematically these platforms. “The responsibility is shared. “

Another project to develop a speech against. As the government has done by creating a dedicated site, Stop-djihadisme.gouv.fr, the authorities could take more speech, especially on social networks to counteract regimentation.

New Meeting in April

This cooperation adds to the law against terrorism adopted in November. A first decree to block access to propaganda sites has just been published. A second déréférançant videos and content search engines will follow by the end of February. The objective of the Place Bauveau eradicating illegal content, the way of what we managed to do in child pornography. Still, the actors want clear criteria in order not to have to judge themselves of contentiousness or no content.

After this California tour, the Minister of Interior has made an appointment to Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter in April in Paris. A meeting will be an opportunity to “to review the commitments made, they make applications even more accurate and stop a code of conduct. “