Unpacking France’s Chilling Proposal to Hold Companies Accountable for Speech

By Jillian York | EFF | February 6, 2015 France’s misguided efforts to grapple with hate speech—which is already prohibited by French law—have been making headlines for years. In 2012, after an horrific attack on a Jewish school, then-president Nicolas Sarkozy proposed criminal penalties for anyone visiting websites that contain hate speech. An anti-terror law […]

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