“Twitter, a day after saying it blocked a neo-Nazi group’s 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. The hashtag #unbonjuif — which in English means ‘a good Jew’ — has been one of the top trending words on French-language tweets and is often followed by offensive comments such as: ‘A good Jew can pump up your tyre with his nose.'”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/19/french-jews-to-sue-twitter-over-anti-semitic-tweets/
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