French court orders Twitter to identify racist and anti-Semitic users - Polidicks

[IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b196/Starmenclock/ArticleFrenchTwitter.png[/IMG] [url="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/french-court-orders-twitter-to-identify-racist-and-anti-semitic-users/"]Source[/url]. Looks like France is going over board with this one.

muh feelings

[quote]On Thursday, the Grand Instance Court in Paris ordered Twitter to identify the authors of anti-semitic tweets by creating a mechanism (Google Translate) to [B]alert French authorities to “illegal content,”[/B] on its French site “in a visible and easily-accessible [way].”[/quote] Unnecessary. The EU was never known for its free speech anyways

[QUOTE=Starpluck;39350519]Unnecessary. The EU was never known for its free speech anyways[/QUOTE] By the way Starpluck, is it ok to post articles this way?

I didn't know European countries were like this.

They should have this everywhere you get really tired of people making jokes about black people and buckets.

Nee naw nee naw here comes the hurt feelings police.

Welp, better restrict the freedom of others because ;_;

I am a bit surprised that people find this surprising, freedom of speech is very limited within the whole of EU and Europe as a whole, I thought this was common knowledge, though?

[QUOTE=The fox;39353076]I am a bit surprised that people find this surprising, freedom of speech is very limited within the whole of EU and Europe as a whole, I thought this was common knowledge, though?[/QUOTE] I assumed the opposite for the western based ones ([sp]non slavs and non russkies based countries[/sp]).

Freedom of speech is not freedom from responsibility in speech. This is still going overboard, though, to target users that are saying what they personally think or would [i]supposedly[/i] do [if my son/daughter ___]. If they were asking others to commit hate crimes, then I would support their identification. [editline]25th January 2013[/editline] Additionally, while French speech laws are debatable, it makes sense to make the law apply online within French borders as well (instead of the internet being one big loophole).

[QUOTE=The fox;39353076]I am a bit surprised that people find this surprising, freedom of speech is very limited within the whole of EU and Europe as a whole, I thought this was common knowledge, though?[/QUOTE] Uh, what?

[QUOTE=Bletotum;39353166]Freedom of speech is not freedom from responsibility in speech. This is still going overboard, though, to target users that are saying what they personally think or would [i]supposedly[/i] do [if my son/daughter ___]. If they were asking others to commit hate crimes, then I would support their identification. [editline]25th January 2013[/editline] Additionally, while French speech laws are debatable, it makes sense to make the law apply online within French borders as well (instead of the internet being one big loophole).[/QUOTE] this there's a difference between freedom of speech and discrimination

[QUOTE=Stopper;39353580]Uh, what?[/QUOTE] well there's this article, and also In germany I think it is illegal to display the swastika as well, not sure on that too.

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;39353825]well there's this article, and also In germany I think it is illegal to display the swastika as well, not sure on that too.[/QUOTE] Yeah, that doesn't mean that we have limited freedom of speech - that's bullshit.

EU went so far that they will start to whip people who aren't walking in the given fashion.

Well, at least we don't have any westboro church thanks to our "limited" freedom of speech (which is basicly like everywhere else except no hate speech and racial slurs allowed)

Didn't France try to make cookies outright illegal in the past? Compared to that this is a sane and rational move.

I'd like to see an example of these hashtagged tweets.