{"id":308243,"date":"2026-10-27T10:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T06:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=308243"},"modified":"2026-10-27T10:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T06:52:17","slug":"french-government-may-block-social-media-platforms-over-calls-for-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/308243\/","title":{"rendered":"French government may block social media platforms over calls for unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The French government is considering blocking social media platforms that fail to remove posts calling for rebellion and violence after receiving official requests to do so, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/secteur\/high-tech\/le-gouvernement-veut-pouvoir-bloquer-les-reseaux-sociaux-s-ils-ne-suppriment-pas-les-contenus-appelant-a-l-insurrection-20261026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Le Figaro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A relevant amendment to the bill has already been submitted to parliament, the newspaper reports.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposal, platforms would be required to remove content inciting terrorist acts, riots, or armed conflict within one hour.<\/p>\n<p>A 24-hour deadline would apply for the removal of calls to murder, violence, and looting.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative follows the widespread unrest that accompanied the protests on October 17.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French government is considering blocking social media platforms that fail to remove posts calling for rebellion and violence after receiving official requests to do so, according to Le Figaro. A relevant amendment to the bill has already been submitted to parliament, the newspaper reports. Under the proposal, platforms would be required to remove content [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":308213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308244,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308243\/revisions\/308244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}