PARIS — 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.

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Kick has come under intensified scrutiny in France after a 46-year-old Frenchman died Aug. 18 during a 12-day marathon live-streaming episode on his channel, which specialized 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 ki

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