The head of France's broadcast and online regulator said on Sunday it did not have the authority to block an online channel used by a streamer who died while live-casting.

Because the channel was hosted on an Australian platform, Kick, which has no representation in France, "it does not come under the direct authority of ARCOM", the agency chief, Martin Ajdari, said in an op-ed published by Le Monde.

Kick has come under intensified scrutiny in France after a 46-year-old Frenchman died August 18 during a 12-day marathon live streaming episode on his channel, which specialised in him enduring abuse or humiliation dished out by other participants.

A post-mortem found that the man -- real name Raphael Graven, but known online as "Jean Pormanove" or "JP" -- was not killed by trauma or by som

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