{"id":62672,"date":"2012-10-19T15:08:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T13:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=62672"},"modified":"2012-10-19T16:42:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T14:42:49","slug":"twitter-to-remove-anti-semitic-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/62672-twitter-to-remove-anti-semitic-posts.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter to remove anti-Semitic posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/359584-Twitter\">Twitter<\/a> has agreed to remove French-language anti-Semitic messages that have flooded the micro-blogging site in recent days, after threats of legal action, a Jewish student union said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The US firm agreed to apply French law and remove offensive messages it is alerted to, said a lawyer for the UEJF union. Such tweets have been proliferating in France in recent days with the hashtag #unbonjuif (#AGoodJew).<\/p>\n<p>The UEJF on Thursday threatened to seek an injunction against Twitter to try to make it remove the offending tweets.<\/p>\n<p>UEJF lawyer Stephane Lilti told AFP that his client had scored an &#8220;important victory&#8221; over Twitter, which did not immediately react to his statement.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter on Thursday said it had blocked a neo-Nazi group&#8217;s account at the request of German police.<\/p>\n<p>The move was the first time that the US firm had applied a policy known as &#8220;country-withheld content&#8221; which allows it to block an account at the request of state authorities.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Jub Jub tweet causes outcry\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/62430-jub-jub-tweet-causes-outcry.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Jub Jub tweet causes outcry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Twitter study gives insight into user habits\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/61860-twitter-study-gives-insight-into-user-habits.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Twitter study gives insight into user habits<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Get paid to tweet\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/58629-get-paid-to-tweet.html\">Get paid to tweet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Motlanthe impersonated on Facebook, Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/58355-motlanthe-impersonated-on-facebook-twitter.html\">Motlanthe impersonated on Facebook, Twitter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Semitic posts on Twitter will be removed, as the company has agreed with French law after an influx of messages appeared on the site<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":55947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,16314,13011,16312,405],"class_list":["post-62672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-anti-semitic","tag-ban","tag-removal","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}