Sunday, January 27, 2013
Twitter ordered to identify anti-Semitic tweeters in France
Interesting to see what happens next. Note that it's only a private company that is protecting the identity of anonymous posters. There seem to be no legal protections
A FRENCH court has ruled Twitter, which has steadfastly refused calls to police its millions of users, must hand over data to help identify the authors of racist or anti-Semitic tweets.
In a test case that pitted the right to free speech against laws banning hate speech, the court granted a request, lodged in October by France’s Union of Jewish Students (UEJF), which argued that many tweets had breached French law.
The union had been pressing Twitter to exercise tighter control of what appeared on its internet site following a deluge of anti-Semitic messages posted under the hashtag #unbonjuif (#agoodjew).
Twitter later removed some of the offending tweets.
The UEJF took legal action aimed at forcing Twitter to identify the authors of some of the posts.
The court in Paris on Thursday ruled the site must do this ‘‘within the framework of its French site’’.
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What are racist or anti-Semitic tweets to one, are simply personal opinions to others. In many cases, simply disagreeing with, or holding differing points of view with those groups is seen as being racist and anti-semitic. Therein lies the extreme danger posed by those who subscribe to political correctness, which is of course, just another tool used to squelch that which we dislike, or expose that which we don't want exposed.
In the US, it has been found that many of those so-called "racist and/or anti-semitic" incidents are actually committed by members of those groups themselves! It's a great way to get attention and even more special treatment (ie. sympathy) for your cause.
"It has been found that many of those so-called "racist and/or anti-semitic" incidents are actually committed by members of those groups themselves! "
Please provide facts to back up what you claim.
Tell the french chicken to TAKE A HIKE
Hey all you french chickens, go take a hike. Are you happy now, Bird?
France has no authority over twitter other than to try and block the service in their country. Which would be hilarious. Twitter is under the US jurisdiction and cannot be ordered to release information by a foreign entity. Twitter should tell the frogs to go stuff themselves.
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