Thanks for sharing! What is not entirely clear to me, is whether this draft would concern itself with people who create an account, or any visitors of a website. In your email you seem to suggest the former, in the article linked in the tweet, the latter seems suggested. But I'm relying on automated translations and brief summaries, so I may very well miss a nuance :) Is this clear in the proposed law?
Lodewijk On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 1:20 AM Naphsica Papanicolaou < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > For your information, Wikimedia France is working on opposing a French > proposed law that would require parental consent for U15s accounts on > "social networks". The text is currently using the definition of the DMA > without the exemptions provided. So, that could catch our projects and > especially Wikipedia. > > Wikimedia France has developped a written brief and engaged with > parliamentarians. At the National Assembly, the Commission in charge of the > file has written in its report that the online encyclopedia should not be > concerned by this law. In France, the judge can refer to this kind of > document to make a decision, but it is not at all mandatory for him. So, it > is not a strong enough protection in our opinion. > > We will then try, during the second reading in the Assembly, that the > exclusion of Wikipedia will be tabled by an amendment and will be written > concretely into the text. We are currently talking with some senators to > table an amendment to this effect. However, with the national reform and > the massive strikes currently in France, we do not yet have the date when > the text will be debated in the Senate. > > Also, we provided some responses to a BFM journalist : > https://twitter.com/NaphsicaP/status/1639258248913223681 . Do not > hesitate to share that we could have even more visibility. > > Have a great day, > -- > *Naphsica PAPANICOLAOU* > *Chargée de plaidoyer* > *+33 1 42 36 26 24* <+33142362624> > *+33 6 09 36 10 59* <+33609361059> > *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* > *WIKIMEDIA FRANCE* > Association pour le libre partage de la connaissance > *www.wikimedia.fr <http://www.wikimedia.fr/>* > *28 rue de Londres, 75009 PARIS* > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1234174880> > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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