Agence France-Presse |<\/p>\n
Twitter, a day after saying it blocked a neo-Nazi group\u2019s account in Germany in a global first, faced a new battle Friday in France where Jewish students are taking it to court to force it to remove anti-Semitic messages.<\/p>\n
The UEJF Jewish students\u2019 union said it was filing a suit against the micro-blogging site to try to make it remove the offending tweets that have proliferated in recent days in France with the hasghtag #unbonjuif.<\/p>\n
The hashtag \u2013 which in English means \u201ca good Jew\u201d \u2013 has been one of the top trending words on French-language tweets and is often followed by offensive comments such as: \u201cA good Jew can pump up your tyre with his nose.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a fire that we have to put out. We want to put an end to this outpouring of hatred,\u201d the UEJF\u2019s lawyer Stephane Lilti said.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Twitter said it had blocked a neo-Nazi group\u2019s account at the request of German police.<\/p>\n
The move was the first time that the US firm had applied a policy known as \u201ccountry-withheld content\u201d which allows it to block an account at the request of state authorities.<\/p>\n
In a move pitting censorship concerns against national laws on hate speech, Twitter said it had deployed the tool developed only this year to restrict content in a single country rather than simply delete posted comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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