moderation of content has long been the first source of major conflict between the major american platforms online and governments around the world. In Europe, these tensions have resulted in several legislative projects in recent years.
The european Commission is to present shortly a regulation requiring large platforms to remove the contents making the apology of terrorism in less than an hour. Germany has already put in place a system of forcing Facebook, YouTube and others to respond to reports of content that is hateful in less than 24 hours. In France, the member LREM Paris Laetitia Avia will defend in may of a law against hate speech online, strengthening the controls to the giants of the Web. His college LR of the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti has announced that it would also work on a project, it centered on anti-semitism.
The giants of the Web is often claim of the american tradition of freedom of expression.
In Europe especially, but also elsewhere, Facebook, Instagram (property of the social network of Mark Zuckerberg), Twitter or …