Twitter suspended Sunday March 14 for ” bullying “ the account of the adolescent girl from Isère Mila, became one of the symbols of persecution on the internet, before coming back the next day to his decision in the face of the emotion aroused.
Mila responded to insults and threats
The young girl, who has more than 20,000 subscribers, had posted in the evening old drawings of childhood, before being the target of thousands of messages of insults and threats such as “Dirty whore”, “dirty dyke”, “dirty Islamophobe”, said his lawyer Richard Malka.
Weekly Point, Mila acknowledges having replied to some, dealing with the author of one of the “Frustrated virgin”, which could be the cause of its suspension by the network.
“It’s unbelievable, she is only a victim”, noted Me Malka, denouncing “An arbitrary platform that refuses to apply French law, a network without faith or law.”
“It is as if you were assaulted in the street and that you were convicted of assault”, he added.
On the @magicalorrs page, a white dot replaced the girl’s profile photo for a few hours while the post “Twitter Suspends Accounts That Violate Twitter Rules” was displayed.
Twitter recognizes an error
Asked by AFP, the American company recognized ” a mistake “. The decision to intervene was “Canceled and access to the account has been restored”. Which was indeed the case at the end of Monday morning.
For the Secretary of State in charge of Digital Transition Cédric O, “The reestablishment of the @magicalorrs account by @TwitterFrance comes too late: the double sentence for #mila, constantly harassed. To protect victims online, regulating social networks is a priority for @gouvernementFR ”.
Restoring the account of @magicalorrs by @TwitterFrance comes too late: the double penalty for # thousand, constantly harassed. To protect victims online, the regulation of social networks is a priority of the @gouvernementFR #dsa #pjlprincipesrepublicains
– Cédric O (@cedric_o) March 15, 2021
Speaking on Radio J, the deputy LREM Aurore Bergé also noted “a major subject of regulation on which we feel a little helpless” […] because dependent “A certain number of rules which are specific to these social networks”.
Indignant reactions
The suspension of Mila’s account had previously sparked a number of indignant reactions on the same platform.
“#Mila @magicalorrs posts a child’s drawing, immediately gets yelled at and harassed. Twitter, listening only to his courage which meant nothing to him, blocks the victim’s account under the fanatic applause of the hateful sycophants. @TwitterFrance you should be ashamed ”, the Lycra reacted.
Writer Raphaël Enthoven posted: “Give us back @magicalorrs!” When a woman is threatened with death, it is she who is protected. Not the putative assassins (beware, cons: this is not an insult). # Mila »
“By closing the account of a young woman harassed and threatened by the Islamists, #Twitter has chosen the camp of the enemies of democracy”, thundered Marine Le Pen. “It is time to protect freedom of expression in the face of the exorbitant power of these private platforms and their repeated abuses!” “, said the president of the National Rally.
As for Senator LR Valérie Boyer, she noted that Twitter France “Prefers its hateful aggressors to their victim”, while this one is “Already deprived of liberty, in permanent danger of death, by the Islamists”.
The life of this young girl was turned upside down in January 2020, when she published a video that went viral in which she made virulent criticisms of Islam. “The Koran there is only hatred in there, Islam is shit”, she said in this video, initially released in a personal chat.
Five people are due to be tried in June
Her words triggered a flood of threats, forcing her to leave her high school in Villefontaine (Isère).
After being presented to a prosecutor from the national anti-hate online pole in February, five people aged 18 to 29 are due to be tried on June 3 by the Paris Criminal Court for “Moral harassment” and, for two of them, ” death threats “.
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