Minister says Australian platform ‘did not do everything possible to stop the broadcast of dangerous content’
France will sue the Australian streaming platform Kick for alleged negligence after a user died during a livestream, a government minister has said.
The platform has come under scrutiny in France after a 46-year-old Frenchman died earlier this month during a 12-day livestreaming marathon on his channel, which specialised in him enduring abuse or humiliation dished out by other participants.
“Kick did not do everything possible to stop the broadcast of dangerous content,” said the digital affairs minister, Clara Chappaz, accusing the platform of breaking a 2004 law regulating online content.
A postmortem found that the man, Raphael Graven, known online as Jean Pormanove or JP, was not killed by trauma or by someone else.
