Twitter must identify racist, anti-Semitic posters, French court says
During the month (illuminated racist, homophobic and hashtags # UnBonJuif (a good Jew), # SiMonFilsEstGay (gay son if any), by a rash of tweets, the anti-Semites and SiMaFilleRamèneUnNoir # use when my daughter brings home one of the black man), the French Twittersphere.
Last fall, the defense group of Jewish Students (UEJF) under pressure from the French Union Twitter has decided to remove some offensive tweets. In October 2012, Berlin desire Twitter, Hanover, the company had responded exposed to a government request, a neo-Nazi Germany in the city center for the first time.
Currently, however, UEJF addition Twitter is not ready to give up, the authors asked for credentials. So the group went to court to force the issue.
Thursday, Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance eye, "his French site of" illegal content "a mechanism for the French authorities (Google Translate) ordered warning by creating a large Twitter to the perpetrators of anti-Semitic tweets and easily accessible [so] to identified. "
Twitter does not respond within two weeks, the U.S. company day 1000 € ($ 1,336) to a fine face.
How to "free speech" and "free"?
French courts and the laws of this racism is not the first time that stupid butted heads online. Less than a year before that, even where President Nicolas Sarkozy, a law to do that, if I saw a hate crime would be proposed.
Here in America, most of the constitutional protection of the right to freedom of expression covers. - Disgusting and horrible, no matter what - even though unprotected driven general hate speech. As we mentioned above, the mechanism of action of the United States more talk speech, not less, should fight was generally undesirable.
This is the approach taken in Europe, hate speech is not protected very strictly. Many countries of the European Union (and even some non-EU countries in Europe) are partially right, are the fight against terrorism and violence on anti-hate speech laws different mechanisms.
"We do Twitter is not possible to identify people," Sacha Reingewirtz, vice president UEJF, the French station RFI said. "We have already tweeted decision. And apparently we decided against our organization caused a further increase in anti-Semitic messages on Twitter I see, so it's still for us and Twitter, there's work to do, happy but're change French is the kind of justice. " Thank you. CNN
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