Frenchman died earlier this month<\/a> during a 12-day livestreaming marathon on his channel, which specialised in him enduring abuse or humiliation dished out by other participants.<\/p>\n\u201cKick did not do everything possible to stop the broadcast of dangerous content,\u201d said the digital affairs minister, Clara Chappaz, accusing the platform of breaking a 2004 law regulating online content.<\/p>\n
A postmortem found that the man, Raphael Graven, known online as Jean Pormanove or JP, was not killed by trauma or by someone else.<\/p>\n
In a separate announcement on Tuesday, the Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said France had opened an investigation into the platform to examine whether Kick had knowingly broadcast \u201cvideos of deliberate attacks on personal integrity\u201d.<\/p>\n
Clara Chappaz (centre right) attending a meeting with concerned authorities in Paris on Tuesday after the death of Raphael Graven. Photograph: Thibaud Moritz\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Investigators will also look at whether the streaming platform complies with the EU Digital Services Act on content moderation. Offenders risk up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to \u20ac1m (\u00a3864,000).<\/p>\n
Kick did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Tuesday\u2019s statement from the Paris prosecutor.<\/p>\n
After Graven\u2019s death, Kick Fran\u00e7ais said it would cooperate with authorities and was reviewing its French content.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur priority is to protect creators and ensure a safer environment on Kick,\u201d it wrote on X. \u201cAll co-streamers who participated in this live broadcast have been banned pending the ongoing investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kick is a livestreaming platform registered in Australia that shares revenue with its content creators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France will sue the Australian streaming platform Kick for alleged negligence after a user died during a livestream,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-375426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115096128500975776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}