“Online violence is as serious, if not more serious, than physical violence. And it leads to tragedy. This is what led to the young girl’s suicide […] I am very sensitive to this because my own daughter was the victim of online harassment. I had to change her school rather than the opposite happening. This is not normal. We must take all measures to combat this online violence.”she replied.
“Myself, barely my name was mentioned as a rumor, my Wikipedia was changed 800 times. I can tell you it wasn’t for the better.”
The candidate commissioner then defended two directives making it possible to regulate this type of problem: the Digital Service Act and the AI Act. “With these two directives which will be implemented by 2026, we will have to put together a code of conduct with the commissioners who are responsible so that the platforms take their responsibilities. Let them fight against the anonymity that allows this violence. Because you don’t attack in the same way when you’re open-faced. We will have to find the right balance between, on the one hand, respecting the GDPR rules and on the other hand, unmasking all these online actors who allow you to insult, to discover bodies – being naked online while it is is not your body, that is also artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence offers a lot of opportunities, but we will have to fight against these risks.”
