If Amazon were to acquire beleaguered French streaming platform Salto, it would be a move of high hypocrisy by stakeholders that would tear through the fabric of content integrity in France. Salto was created by broadcasters TF1 and M6 not only to compete against the might of US streaming insurgents of the Netflix and Amazon Prime Video variety, but as a long-term vehicle for local content production. This has been upheld by strict content laws in France that require any and all streaming services to invest between 20% to 25% of revenues accrued in France back into local French content production. The gray area is whether the acquisition of Salto by Amazon – or any US company for that matter…