{"id":512,"date":"2013-07-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/07\/twitter-and-free-speech-vs-hate-speech-in-france.html"},"modified":"2014-06-01T10:02:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T15:02:55","slug":"twitter-and-free-speech-vs-hate-speech-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/07\/twitter-and-free-speech-vs-hate-speech-in-france.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter and Free Speech vs. Hate Speech in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Y8oBCJEcwH8\/Ue3J-pm1ELI\/AAAAAAAADBQ\/L5PQKVQjEbw\/s1600\/bonjuif.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Y8oBCJEcwH8\/Ue3J-pm1ELI\/AAAAAAAADBQ\/L5PQKVQjEbw\/s400\/bonjuif.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Here\u2019s a great case for class discussion.<\/p>\n<p>You cannot yell \u201cFIRE\u201d in a public theater, but in 1977, neo-Nazis could march in Skokie, Ill., a predominantly Jewish town. Today, in France, the French prosecutor asked Twitter to turn over the \u201cdata necessary for identifying the authors of anti-Semitic tweets that were accompanied by the hashtag #UnBonJuif (#AGoodJew.),\u201d \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/techpresident.com\/news\/wegov\/24189\/twitter-hands-over-data-unbonjuif-authors-french-authorities\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to this article in Tech President<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=201779420\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this one from NPR.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did Twitter \u201ccave\u201d to French authorities? Do the authors of the anti-Semitic tweets have a right to freedom of speech? \u00a0\u201cThe real issue,\u201d according to one observer, \u201cis, technically, how can you tell the difference between real racists and fascists, and those simply talking or joking about the racist tweets?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a clip from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/01\/22\/169998834\/french-twitter-lawsuit-pits-free-speech-against-hate-speech\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NPR about the conflict<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<object width=\"400\" height=\"386\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/v2\/?i=169998834&amp;m=170007499&amp;t=audio\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\"><embed width=\"400\" height=\"386\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/v2\/?i=169998834&amp;m=170007499&amp;t=audio\" wmode=\"opaque\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" base=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/div><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a great case for class discussion. You cannot yell \u201cFIRE\u201d in a public theater, but in 1977, neo-Nazis could march in Skokie, Ill., a predominantly Jewish town. Today, in France, the French prosecutor asked Twitter to turn over the \u201cdata necessary for identifying the authors of anti-Semitic tweets that were accompanied by the hashtag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Twitter and Free Speech vs. Hate Speech in France<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here&#039;s a great case for class discussion. 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