After lawsuit threat, Twitter to pull racist posts
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, could mark a new stage for the company that has famously refused efforts to police its millions of users.
But it's not entirely clear how the social network planned to carry out the agreement or in what timeframe.
"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."
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(Translation: A good Jew)
(Translation: A good Jew should be cooked just right)
(Translation: A good Jew with his friends and girlfriend)
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