Twitter and French twitterers to face legal action?
French anti-racist groups on Tuesday said they were launching wide-ranging legal action following a wave of anti-Semitic posts on microblogging site Twitter.
The move follows an explosion last week in the use of the Twitter hashtag #unbonjuif - meaning “a good Jew” - to spread anti-Semitic jokes online.
By October 10, the hashtag was trending third in France (meaning it was the third most popular tagged subject on the site in the country) and a deluge of offensive posts -- as well as tweets decrying the racist tone of many of the comments -- continued for days.
And with anti-Semitic hate crimes on the rise in France, organisations like SOS Racisme and the French Jewish Students Union (UEJF) said they were determined pursue those that took part through the courts.
“We are taking this extremely seriously,” said SOS Racisme director Guillaume Ayne. “There is a deep-rooted anti-Semitism in France, and there is a very small step between racist words and racist acts.”
Ayne told FRANCE 24 that SOS Racisme’s lawyers were exploring “all avenues for legal action” to respond to the tweets, which have raised issues relating to the use of social networks and blogs, and the application of France’s strict laws against racism and anti-Semitism.
“We absolutely have to tell people that just because they are sitting behind a computer, they can’t assume they’ll get away with making racist comments,” he said.Hmmm.
Labels: France, French anti-Semitism, Twitter
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:34 AM
1 Comments:
Twitter is a disgusting as facebook, for allowing anti-semitisme to run free, but woe betide you if you so much as criticize mozlems! My twitter acc was suspended for a month, they would not tell me why, but this has been spreading like the plague and nothing!!
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