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After lawsuit threat, Twitter to pull racist posts
Associated Press ^ | 19 Oct. 2012 10:52 AM ET | Lori Hinnant

Posted on 10/20/2012 1:00:56 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Twitter agreed to pull racist and anti-Semitic tweets under a pair of French hash tags after a Jewish group threatened to sue the social network for running afoul of national laws against hate speech, the organization said. The decision came a day after Twitter bowed to German law and blocked an account of a banned neo-Nazi group there. …

The French Union of Jewish Students, which planned to supply Twitter with a list of the offensive tweets to be pulled, said it would still file a formal complaint against the social network to bring the tweeters to justice. The union held a conference call Thursday night with Twitter executives in California.

The anti-Semitic tweets in French, which started Oct. 10, included slurs and photos evoking the Holocaust, including one of a pile of ash and another of an emaciated Holocaust victim. They were followed by offensive, anti-Muslim tweets. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; eussr; france; twitter

1 posted on 10/20/2012 1:01:02 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
"...They were followed by offensive, anti-Muslim tweets. …"

That's what it's about. Nothing else.

The Kenyan must go.

2 posted on 10/20/2012 4:45:32 PM PDT by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: ex91B10

They can’t call them racist then. Islam isn’t a race.


3 posted on 10/20/2012 5:13:35 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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