National regulations
Loi Avia (France)
French law (May 2020) that imposed 1-hour takedown timelines for terrorism content and 24 hours for hate content on online platforms. Partially struck down by the Conseil constitutionnel; some provisions remain in force.
Loi Avia is the shorthand for the French law adopted in May 2020 to combat hate speech online. Its most aggressive provisions (24-hour takedown on hate, 1-hour on terrorism content) were partially struck down by the Conseil constitutionnel in June 2020 for disproportionate constraint on freedom of expression.
What remains in force :
- A mandatory reporting interface (“bouton de signalement”) on platforms hosting user content.
- Transparency obligations that have since been folded into the DSA framework.
- The role of Arcom (the French audiovisual regulator) in monitoring compliance.
For news publishers, Loi Avia is mostly subsumed under the EU DSA today, but the framework remains the reference for terrorist-content and child-exploitation flagging interfaces.
Operational implication
Logora’s “Flag illegal content” affordance covers the Loi Avia reporting interface obligation, the DSA Article 16 notice-and-action mechanism, and the equivalent NetzDG flag in Germany, all from the same UI.