{"id":14842,"date":"2013-01-25T02:01:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T02:01:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-25T02:01:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T02:01:40","slug":"French-court-orders-Twitter-to-unmask-racist-tweet-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=14842","title":{"rendered":"French court orders Twitter to unmask racist tweet authors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well this is a first!<\/strong><\/p>\n

A French court has ruled that 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.<\/p>\n

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.
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\nThe 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).<\/p>\n

Twitter later removed some of the offending tweets.<\/p>\n

The UEJF took legal action aimed at forcing Twitter to identify the authors of some of the posts.<\/p>\n

The court in Paris on Thursday ruled that the site must do this “within the framework of its French site”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In October, Twitter suspended the account of a neo-Nazi group in Germany following a request from the government in Berlin.<\/p>\n

That was the first time that the US firm had applied a policy known as “country-withheld content”<\/strong> which allows it to block an account at the request of state authorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Twitter, which last month said the number of active users of the service had topped 200 million, said it deployed the tool developed only last year to restrict content in a single country rather than simply delete posted comments.<\/p>\n

German politicians welcomed the step to stop distributing the far-right Besseres Hannover group’s “hateful ideology”, adding that social media sites including Facebook and YouTube had also complied with the request.<\/p>\n

The legal suit in France came a week after France’s SPCJ Jewish security watchdog said anti-Semitic acts surged by 45 percent since the start of the year and were given new impetus by attacks by Islamic extremist Mohamed Merah.<\/p>\n

Merah went on a shooting rampage in March in and around the city of Toulouse, killing a rabbi, three Jewish children and three French paratroopers before being shot dead in a police siege.<\/p>\n

Highly doubt if they started revealing twitter authors in the United States!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source AFP<\/em>
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