The Minister of National Education announces in particular that he will ask the platforms to take up the subject and to act “in such a way as to block the insulting and degrading messages which circulate and which do so much harm to our youth”.
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“Social networks must act” on the issue of cyberbullying “because they rot the lives of too many young people”, launches Tuesday, June 6 on franceinfo the Minister of National Education Pap Ndiaye. The minister judges “unacceptable” the behavior of platforms such as Facebook, Instagram or Tik Tok.
It is in particular on these social networks that the school harassment of Lindsay, 13, continued, even after her suicide. On May 12, the teenager educated in 4th grade at the Bracke-Desrousseaux college in Vendin-le-Vieil (Pas-de-Calais) killed herself.
Social networks are “far too slow” to act
Faced with this tragedy, Pap Ndiaye recognizes that he “we absolutely have to constrain social networks” Act. “They are much too slow, much too hesitant”, deplores the Minister of National Education. He announces that he will ask the platforms to seize the subject and to act “so as to block the insulting and degrading messages that circulate and which do so much harm to our youth”.
Pap Ndiaye proposes in particular to create a “small icon under messages” so that Internet users can “Instantly report a violent message”with “the obligation to remove it quickly”.