Apparently what they call safe harbor exceptions don't apply in France! There even visiting a website containing hate speech is against the law. That makes absolutely no sense to me. The assumption seems to be that people only visit sites which post opinions which they agree with. I often seek out opinions that I disagree with. Learning about what others think is what people with strong intellectual curiosity do. Not allowing people to view offensive material is a form of thought control (you know, the kind of thing that totalitarian governments like to do) and I'm against any infringement on thought or speech!
France’s misguided efforts to grapple with hate speech—which is already prohibited by French law—have been making headlines for years. In 2012, after an horrific attack on a Jewish school, then-president Nicolas Sarkozy proposed criminal penalties for anyone visiting websites that contain hate speech. An anti-terror law passed in December imposes greater penalties on those that “glorify terrorism” online (as opposed to offline), and allows websites engaging in the promotion of terrorism to be blocked with little oversight.
LINK: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/unpacking-frances-chilling-proposal-hold-companies-accountable-speech