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The latter law is not linguistic censorship because it applies to television programs that are dubbed into French; rather it is a restriction of foreign-produced cultural content. In another law that involves censorship of both linguistic and foreign-produced content, songs in the French language on radio are protected by a minimum quota system ...
A furious French left has called for mass protests across more than 130 towns and cities on Saturday, after French President Emmanuel Macron named a right-wing prime minister, despite the left's ...
Demonstrators hold placards read "No to the domination of the people" and "Resist" as they protest in Bayonne, France, on Saturday. Protests rage across France against bill on police images Skip ...
In 2000, French courts demanded Yahoo! block Nazi material in the case LICRA vs. Yahoo. [6] In 2001, a U.S. District Court Judge held that Yahoo cannot be forced to comply with French laws against the expression of pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic views, because doing so would violate its right to free expression under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. [7]
Riots continued to rage in France overnight, as 45,000 police were deployed and 719 people were arrested across the country by early Sunday in the fifth consecutive night of violence.
The United Nations Human Rights Office issued a statement on 30 June urging France to seriously address the "deep-rooted issues of racism and racial discrimination" within its law enforcement agencies, [63] and by 2 July, the United States, Turkey, Canada, and several European countries, including the United Kingdom and Norway, had recommended ...
The Avia Law, a law of 24 June 2020 aimed at combating hateful content on the internet, was a law of France whose initial content was largely challenged by the Constitutional Council, but some provisions were retained, such as the creation of a specialized public prosecutor's office and an Observatory of Online Hate attached to the Arcom.
Censorship in France, the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient". Subcategories