The President of CRIF wants a “state of emergency” on the Internet – The World

“The state of emergency must also apply on the Internet” : during his speech at the traditional dinner of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF), attended by the Prime Minister Manuel Valls, Roger Cukierman, its president, said that the measures taken after the attacks in November should have their while online.

Now, the state of emergency, adopted by the deputies just after the attacks and again extended for three months on February 9 includes many measures governing the content published on the internet. Specifically, the text provides for the possibility for law enforcement to proceed with the administrative block – that is to say without a judge’s decision – sites inciting terrorist acts of commission or by the apology.

this measure, and making controversial partly overlap with other legislation that already foresaw this possibility of blocking, has, according to information from the World , not used

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Accounting for possible anti-Semitic messages

Mr Cukierman, the new measures are justified to fight against “exponential increase” of antisemitic content published on the internet. But if 2015 was marked by many particularly serious anti-Semitic acts, including attacks in January, no serious study figure changes in the number of published anti-Semitic content, and therefore concludes that “ increase exponential “of these.

the 2015 report of the Security Department of the Jewish community (SPCJ), co-founded by CRIF and list each year all anti-Semitic acts in France recognizes in its part “methodology” that the task is technically impossible:

“the census records anti-Semitic acts which have been the subject of a complaint or a
handrail to the police and sent to SPCJ. It is enriched and
intersected by the reports from the different police services on French territory
and centralized at the Interior Ministry. [...] Furthermore, the anti-Semitic content on the Internet are not recorded systematically. “