In the event of conflict, the security of the regime takes precedence over the individual freedom of Internet users and the commercial interests of companies, which is the case in the vast majority of authoritarian regimes. [...] The expansion of the Internet in France since the 2000s has been accompanied by the development of a legislative framework for the regulation of online content. [...] Home to the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, France is shaped by the role of a highly protective state. [...] The preceding analysis of French and European legislation embodied by the GDPR and the Avia law clearly illustrates the desire of French regulators to delimit the parameters of companies' zone of freedom. [...] The development of similar grievances in the East and West, in particular concerning the violation of privacy and the dissemination of false information, is becoming the foundation on which the convergence of content regulation methods is based.
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