Paris - France's main Jewish students
union (UEJF) has started legal action against Twitter to force the site to
reveal details on people who posted a slew of anti-Semitic hate messages, its
lawyer said on Tuesday.
A hearing is set for 8 January at a Paris
court, attorney Stephane Lilti said, adding that the group was also seeking the
implementation of French laws on illicit content.
The lawyer representing Twitter was
unavailable for comment.
In October, the UEJF said it had forced
Twitter to take down many offending tweets that had flooded the site under the
hashtag #unbonjuif (#agoodjew), with examples including: "#agoodjew is a
dead Jew".
Following that, more anti-Semitic
messages were sighted with a new keyword, #unjuifmort (#adeadjew).A Twitter spokesperson refused at the time to comment directly on the tweets and reiterated the company's standard response that it "does not mediate content".
He added: "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."
These state that Twitter cannot delete
tweets but allow for accounts generating content in breach of its rules or
considered illegal to be suspended.
The site had also said it would not hand
over details of account holders unless ordered to do so by a judge.
Culled from News24
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