ed note–how many MILLIONS of ‘tweets’ and all the rest of it–anti-Islamic in nature that lead to REAL violence, including Anders Breivik’s murder of nearly 80 people in Norway, are ‘protected’ under the premise of ‘freedom of speech’? How many anti-Islamic cartoons are published WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST FREAKING CONSIDERATION FOR ‘HATE SPEECH LAWS’ defaming Islam, Muslims, etc, and when complaints are raised against these expressions, Jewish groups smugly smirk and accuse the offended parties of being ‘nazis’ and ‘bookburners’?
As we say often here, there are 2 standards as far as organized Jewish interests are concerned–ONE FOR THEM AND ONE FOR THE GENTILES.
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 freewheeling social network is increasingly running up against European anti-discrimination laws, many of which date to the aftermath of the Holocaust by governments that acknowledged the contribution of years of hate speech to the Nazi attempt to annihilate the Jews. Friday’s action, which was not carried out immediately, would mark a dramatic new stage for the company that has famously refused efforts to police its millions of users.
“Twitter does not mediate content,” the company said in a statement. “If we are alerted to content that may be in violation of our terms of service, we will investigate each report and respond according to the policies and procedures outlined in our support pages.”
The company’s policies require international users to comply with local laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content.
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.
On Thursday, Twitter blocked the neo-Nazi’s account in Germany, although its tweets were still visible to any user whose settings include a different location. The French-language tweets came from hundreds of users, not all of them necessarily in France.
Almost immediately after the French group announced its agreement with Twitter, tweets went up against what some users saw as an attack on freedom of expression — all using the hash tag that started the wave of racist posts on Oct. 10.
Elie Petit, vice president of the group, dismissed the criticism: “I don’t think a call for murder is freedom of expression,” he said.
French law forbids all discrimination based on ethnicity, nationality, race or religion.
German law is more specific. Because of its Nazi past, the country has strict laws prohibiting the use of related symbols and slogans — like the display of the swastika, or saying “heil Hitler.”
After the decision in Germany on Thursday, Twitter’s general counsel Alex Macgillivray said in a tweet that the site’s administrators “never want to withhold content, good to have tools to do it narrowly and transparently.”
In a statement, Jonathan Hayoun, the French group’s president, said the group wasn’t trying to be the “garbage collectors of the Internet.”
But, he added, “Twitter can’t be a place of illegal expression.”
#1 by sea on October 19, 2012 - 9:52 pm
‘jew me sue me’
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#2 by bostonblah on October 20, 2012 - 12:24 am
probably ol abe up to his old tricks again ,afterall “They were followed by offensive, anti-Muslim tweets.” another jew false flag to set precedent for censorship of twitter
#3 by bigcree1Shadowhawk on October 20, 2012 - 1:50 am
The double standard in unacceptable and has simply got to go. I have had it with Jewish fanatics and their self engrossed whining. They pretend as if they can continue treating people they perceive as ‘less than us’ while screeching and gnashing their teeth whenever anyone speaks freely as to the facts of the history of the World Wars. For me there is ample Historical evidence which clearly shows anyone taking a really critical look into it to be a monuMENTAL farce. HoloHOAX describes this creation of theirs of which they seem to feel they can bully and force others into submission and compliance to further this egregious stream of lies. Enough is enough. Political Correctness = Bolshevism. These Trotskyite control freaks have another real holocaust coming their way just as Ernst Zundel warned. And it is not the ‘Gentiles’ who caused it. What goes around comes around.
#4 by wad on October 20, 2012 - 1:58 am
twitter bans anyone even accused of being anti-semetic. been that way for years.
#5 by Isaac on October 20, 2012 - 3:26 am
Freedom of expression has two ways. One for the Jews and one for the Gentiles.
#6 by mark pidgen on October 20, 2012 - 3:26 pm
The Jew acted EXACTLY the same way before any phony gas chamber stories.