Search Results. Scientific American: 60-Second Science. French Twitter Lawsuit Pits Free Speech Against Hate Speech. Hide captionA wave of racist tweets prompted a Jewish student organization to file a lawsuit asking the American company Twitter to reveal the identities of users sending anti-Semitic tweets.
Twitter says data on users is collected and stocked in California, where French law cannot be applied. Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images A wave of racist tweets prompted a Jewish student organization to file a lawsuit asking the American company Twitter to reveal the identities of users sending anti-Semitic tweets. Twitter says data on users is collected and stocked in California, where French law cannot be applied. A French judge will decide this week if Twitter must hand over the identities of users sending anti-Semitic tweets. The controversy began in October, when the French Union of Jewish Students threatened to sue Twitter to get the names of people posting anti-Semitic tweets with the hashtag #unbonjuif, or "a good Jew. " "If I type 'un bon Juif' ... A Realistic Approach? About SXSW Startup Village. Sessions at the SXSW Interactive Festival cover a multitude of topics ranging from social media, to hacktivism, to health 2.0, to privacy & security, to 21st century transportation models.
While this diverse range of panels is very popular with the digital creatives who attend the event, sessions that focus on startups and entrepreneurism have seen an immense spike in attendance in recent years. Hence the addition of Startup Village, which launched at the 2012 SXSW Interactive Festival and has increased in popularity each year since then. Startup Village consolidates all the entrepreneur-related programming to one venue (the Hilton Austin Downtown, immediately across the street from the Austin Convention Center).
Startup Village also serves as home of SXSW Accelerator (the pitch competition that runs Saturday, March 8 and Sunday, March 9), as well as a variety of panels, meet ups, special events, lounges and activations. Photo of Startup Village 2013 by Richard Kies. Iran's Leader Embraces Facebook; Fellow Iranians Are Blocked. Hide captionIranian authorities are using cyberpolice units to crack down on people who try to access banned websites, including social media sites such as Facebook. Here, Iranians use computers at an Internet cafe in Tehran in January. Vahid Salemi/AP Iranian authorities are using cyberpolice units to crack down on people who try to access banned websites, including social media sites such as Facebook. Here, Iranians use computers at an Internet cafe in Tehran in January.
When Iran's supreme leader got a Facebook page in December, Iranians sat up and blinked. Some thought it was a fake, finding it hard to believe that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would be using a technology that his own government blocks. A U.S. But some of Khamenei's supporters quickly rallied behind the move, which first came to light in a reference on — you guessed it — the ayatollah's Twitter account. Of course, Facebook is not the only site Iranians want to visit, and that's what has the authorities worried.