This is a legal-interview style segment about Maître Arnaud Durand presenting collective legal actions, especially against online censorship and shadow banning of independent media. He argues that platforms and public authorities suppress visibility and revenue through algorithms, and that the remedy is organized petitions followed by lawsuits backed by large numbers of supporters.
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Maître Arnaud Durand, an avocat au barreau de Paris, explains that his group’s model combines a petition with a legal action: if the target does not respond, they are taken to court. He presents this as a practical way to turn public support into litigation, and says the model has already produced wins or partial wins in several prior cases, including the COVID-19 negotiator transparency case against the European Commission, a case involving Linky meters and alleged wave-related harm, and a case in which a healthcare worker’s COVID-era radiation was annulled. The central market-like issue in the interview is not a financial asset but the media/attention economy: Durand argues that independent media are being shadow banned by platforms through algorithmic suppression that does not delete content but prevents it from reaching subscribers. …
Near term, the actionable setup is the launch of collective actions against platform shadow banning, with the immediate catalyst being supporter recruitment and any early legal response. The main risk is that the case generates attention but fails to produce crisp, court-usable evidence or rapid relief.
Over the next few months, the base case is a slow legal campaign that either validates the shadow-ban thesis through injunctions or reveals how hard it is to prove systematic suppression. The key confirmation signal is whether multiple media outlets can document consistent reach suppression across platforms and win procedural traction.
Longer term, the speaker is arguing for a structural change in how digital attention is governed: platforms are treated as durable power centers over speech, monetization, and public visibility. If that regime view holds, independent media will need collective legal, organizational, and audience-building infrastructure to survive.
There is widespread shadow banning of independent media on major platforms that suppresses their visibility without deleting posts.
He says the issue is statistically observable and affects multiple outlets and platforms through algorithmic suppression.
The team has won some collective legal actions by combining petitions with lawsuits.
The speaker says their model is to precede collective actions with a petition and then sue if the other side refuses or does not respond, and cites several victories.
The suppression of independent media by algorithms is causing major revenue losses that should be compensated in court.
He argues that when platforms reduce subscribers and recommendations, independent media lose subscription revenue and should seek damages and injunctive relief.
Can you explain the new model of collective legal actions you presented on Saturday?
He says their collective actions are built around a petition that is not symbolic: if the other side rejects it or does not respond, they are then sued. He also says they have already shown the model works through several past wins.
What was the case against the European Commission about regarding the COVID negotiators?
He says the case was framed around transparency and access to information, including the names of the negotiators and the indemnity clauses in the contracts. He says they won at first instance and the advocate general has now issued a favorable opinion.
What are the new collective actions you are launching, especially on online censorship?
He says one major action concerns online shadow banning of independent media, which he describes as algorithmic censorship without content removal. He says media outlets will first send a petition and then likely sue platforms to demand that shadow banning stop and to seek damages.
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