Harassment and cyberstalking of entertainment contestants: Arcom and the National Pole for Combating Online Hate (PNHL) summon action
Arcom today convened a meeting of TV channels and entertainment show producers to identify means of preventing the risks of harassment and cyberbullying, and thus protecting show contestants. The meeting was organized in the wake of a number of alerts concerning harassment, particularly online harassment, to which entertainment show contestants are subjected on a recurring basis.
The representatives of the channels and producers, who are already taking concrete action to raise awareness and provide support for candidates targeted by such messages, made a commitment to improve prevention of such situations and provide better assistance to candidates who are victims of harassment and cyber-harassment, in particular by taking charge of reports of manifestly unlawful online messages against them, via trusted flaggers designated by Arcom.
The National Centre for Combating Online Hate (PNHL) of the Paris Judicial Court, with which Arcom is in contact on these issues, has announced that it has received several reports of online harassment of discriminatory candidates, and has pointed out that hate messages[1] and cyberharassment[2] are criminal infringements of the law.
The PNLH and Arcom, within their respective areas of competence, will be particularly vigilant in the event that entertainment candidates are the target of hate messages or cyberstalking - in particular with sexist, racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic or transphobic connotations - to ensure that platforms are responsive in the event of reports, and that the perpetrators are investigated and, where appropriate, criminal proceedings / prosecution.
[1] Content that is abusive, defamatory, threatening, negationist or incites hatred, discrimination or violence against a person.
[2] Online content sent by one or more people and intended to intimidate or humiliate the victim.
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