Facebook to Hand Over Users’ Info to French Govt For ‘Hate Speech’ Prosecutions
Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Jun. 26, 2019
Facebook is going to work in concert with the government of France to rat out its own users so they can be prosecuted for “hate speech.”
The move comes just three months after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledged a “privacy-focused” overhaul of the social network.
From Reuters, “In a world first, Facebook to give data on hate speech suspects to French courts”:
In a world first, Facebook has agreed to hand over the identification data of French users suspected of hate speech on its platform to judges, France’s minister for digital affairs Cedric O said on Tuesday.
O, whose father is South Korean, is one of French President Emmanuel Macron’s earliest followers, and has been influential in shaping the president’s thinking on Big Tech as an advisor at the Elysee palace in the first two years of Macron’s presidency.
The decision by the world’s biggest social media network comes after successive meetings between Zuckerberg and Macron, who wants to take a leading role globally on the regulation of hate speech and the spread of false information online.
So far, Facebook has cooperated with French justice on matters related to terrorist attacks and violent acts by transferring the IP addresses and other identification data of suspected individuals to French judges who formally demanded it.
All French citizens are to be treated as terrorists now if they hold the wrong opinions.
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