Very little evoked since the beginning of the campaign, the issue of digital, its actors and the societal aspects of its development is, however, a theme where many cleavages express themselves.
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The digital is a dead angle of the presidential election. Yet the importance of this sector – and that of giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft (GAFAM) or Tiktok – has been further strengthened by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. When we question the teams of the candidates and that we scrolls their programs, subjects and cleavages, however, appear on the sovereignty, online advertising, e-commerce, digital currencies … A month of the first round of voting It is still time to discuss it, as some candidates had to do it, Wednesday, March 9, during the” pitch “, organized by the collective of digital convergence professional associations.
data and sovereignty
The idea of ensuring the “digital sovereignty” of France is consensus. But in detail, almost all critical candidates the doctrine of “trusted cloud” defined in June by the government for administrations and public actors: it promotes “hybrid” offers, which host the data of the users in European law structures but use US giant software, judged “more efficient”.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon (France Insouchaise) offers rather to create a “French cloud, made with free software and mandatory use for the public and strategic sectors”. For Marine Le Pen (national gathering), “public strategic projects (military, for example) must be attributed to French companies “. Valérie Pécresse (Republicans) offers, she, to book 50 % of public sector cloud hosting tenders to European players. All three as well as Yannick Jadot (Europe Ecology-les Greens) , Anne Hidalgo (Socialist Party) or Eric Zemmour (reconquest!) , defend a “Buy European Act “, that is to say a Community preference. Emmanuel Macron is also favorable, but this protectionism is “not consensual” in Europe, we custody in Bercy.
Several candidates also defend a stricter control of the redemptions of French companies by American giants, but also Chinese. M me Pécresse wants to submit them to a “high advice of economic and digital sovereignty”. Marine Le Pen would be ready to impose on the GAFAM from opening the capital of their subsidiaries to local companies, such as US President Donald Trump did with Tiktok. Mr. Mélenchon wants, for his part, “restore public property” on Alcatel Submarine Networks, which poses submarine Internet cables. Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (standing France) dreams of a Google and French social networks.
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