woensdag 2 januari 2013

French Minister Demands Twitter Censor Hate Speech


After #SiMonFilsEstGay ("If my son is gay") trended on Twitter for days in France, the country's Minister of Women's Rights said the micro-blog must begin to censor hate speech.

Najat Belkacem-Vallaud argued that this sort of speech is illegal according to national law in the French newspaper Le Monde.

The homophobic trending topic is not an isolated event, Belkacem-Vallaud points out. Anti-Semitic and racist topics including #unjuifmort ("a dead Jew"), #unbonjuif ("a good Jew") and #SiMaFilleRamèneUnNoir ("If my daughter brings home a Black") have trended in France over the past two months.

"At a moment when the government is implementing an action plan against violence an…
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