In the night of October 27 to 28, the Senate passed the “ vandals pay” bill by 229 votes to 105, along with a government amendment allowing the administration to demand the removal of certain online content without judicial review. Platforms have 24 hours to remove direct calls for violence, theft and vandalism reported through Pharos when they pose a serious threat to public order. A host that refuses faces up to six months in prison, a 150,000-euro fine and, for a company, a penalty of up to 2 % of its global turnover. The bill now goes to the National Assembly under the accelerated procedure, while the decentralized messaging app Bitchat, already downloaded more than one million times from Google Play, remains outside the mechanism because it has no central server.
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