Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 22, 2013 @07:17AM from the feeding-the-trolls dept.

redletterdave writes "After a French civil court ruled on Jan. 24 that Twitter must identify anyone who broke France's hate speech laws, Twitter has since refused to identify the users behind a handful of hateful and anti-Semitic messages, resulting in a $50 million lawsuit. Twitter argues it only needs to comply with U.S. laws and is thus protected by the full scope of the First Amendment and its free speech privileges, but France believes its Internet users should be subject to the country's tighter laws against racist and hateful forms of expression."

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Re:I've been waiting for this... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-22 07:50 · Score: -1, Troll

Well, the french feel guilty about giving so many of their jews to the germans during WWII, so they came up with these laws to make up for it...
It's not racism... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-22 08:10 · Score: 0, Troll

...because there is no such a thing as a "jewish race".