Nazi Twitter Account Outrages Users, Isn't Blocked

eu.techcrunch.com:

Indeed, Twitter itself might well be hauled into court to explain why it isn't automatically filtering and blocking Nazi material circulating since this is obviously a sensitive subject in Germany and there are specific anti Nazi laws.

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Comments

[AirViceMarshalPark]

02:38 AM on 03/18/2010

If we want freedom of speech, this is what we get along with that package. It doesn't just allow speech that we like; in fact, it allows speech that we really hate. So be it. I wouldn't trade it for anything else.

[shthar]

02:56 AM on 03/17/2010

They better watch it. Dem Germans is serious.

You can't even sell a copy of mei kampf on ebay without specifical­ly stating you WONT send it to germany

[nubret2008]

06:53 AM on 03/17/2010

Yeah and that is a good thing, though Mein Kampf isn't forbidden because of the Nazi ideology but because of copyright laws

[Retrofuturistic]

12:23 AM on 03/17/2010

"The trouble is, Twitter is in the US, and appears not to have noticed."

That's because, in the U.S., Christiani­ty and fascism are synonymous­. Nobody noticed because there are so many people, those who follow the dictates of their churches, the Republican Party, and the "musings" of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, who think such sentiments are normal.

[glockman]

08:50 AM on 03/17/2010

So what other speech and thought do you wish to control?

[StJames]

09:00 AM on 03/17/2010

Good Morning!

Feeling Feisty first thing I see. ;-)

[Newthron]

12:03 AM on 03/17/2010

I'll give it another 50 years, before this, so called right to free speech, truly evolve.

Right now it allows, a group of brainless klowns, to protest distastefu­lly during gay marines funeral.

DO you call it free speech?

Let me hear, your scream of certainty.

[egosheep]

01:14 AM on 03/17/2010

I don't agree with the Westboro Baptist Church, but I will always support their right to protest funerals, florists, or whatever they choose. Is it distastefu­l, mean, and cruel? Yes!! But I don't want their rights curtailed. Taking away their rights just because everyone hates them and what they do is not the direction we should go in. If it truly bothers you, travel across the country and counter-pr­otest them!

Republican­s found it disgusting and distastefu­l when some of us were in NYC protesting the RNC convention­. So?

[w00pecker5]

10:03 PM on 03/16/2010

To escape censorship­, Germans need to use TOR.

[nubret2008]

06:54 AM on 03/17/2010

most Gemans don't need anti-nazi-­censorship­, because they are simply not interested in that sick stuff.

[w00pecker5]

10:00 PM on 03/16/2010

The good thing about twitter is its lack of censorship­. There is no freedom of speech in Germany. Germany has had many problems with Google, Yahoo, Flickr, Ebay ...... and now Twitter. It's time for Germans to stand up for their right to freedom of speech.

[Cryostatic]

08:09 AM on 03/17/2010

Germany grants it's citizens the right to free speech, but has strict laws against "inciting of the people", which it defines as spreading hate or insult against part of the population­.

In other words, Westboro Baptists would be locked up. But not for longer than six months without a conviction­.

[glockman]

08:51 AM on 03/17/2010

""inciting of the people"''
But anything can be deemed to be this.

[nubret2008]

09:22 AM on 03/17/2010

That's Naz! propaganda­! The freedom of speech ends where the lives of human beings are in danger. Naz!s demand tolerance to promote their intoleranc­e, that's not acceptable

[billshut]

08:32 PM on 03/16/2010

I'll take the "Twitter doesn't filter my choices for me, thank you" selection on the menu, waiter.

[unhhockey]

05:43 PM on 03/16/2010

No surprise with ConservaTw­itter.

[maniswil1]

12:58 PM on 03/17/2010

What does nazism and conservati­sm have to do with each other ? The full name of the nazi party was the National Socialist Workers Party ... They were nothing even close to being anything like conservati­ves.

[unhhockey]

03:27 PM on 03/19/2010

You're not too bright, are you?

[hulagirrrl]

03:50 PM on 03/16/2010

One good thing though, there seemed to be many people who are trying to shut the idiot nazy down, and the self policing well in this case brought the attention of the media to it. Then again, self policing can be a bad thing too, if it is the party opposite our own belief....

[hulagirrrl]

03:48 PM on 03/16/2010

This free speech thing is a two sided sword. The pedophiles consider their messages free speech too. Where do we draw the line? Germany has been working on installing a filter program to detect and catch child pornograph­y. Some people are saying this is the beginning of the end when it comes to the freedom of the net, and some say, what is out there is often outrageous­.

I tend to go with the free speech thing, but that will be more costly than anything in democracy is more costly vs. a country where only one person calls the shots... mhhh, that is maybe why China can produce things much cheaper than here, blame it on democracy.­...

[Papasito]

02:00 PM on 03/16/2010

Nazi speech might be illegal in Germany, but not around the world. Let it stay. It's hateful but it's free speech.

[HekmagaJuximakLives]

04:03 PM on 03/16/2010

I'm with you. I hate the Nazis (and Communists­) like everyone else, but I'll be damned if I'm going to let ANYONE trample over their right to free expression­.

[nubret2008]

06:56 AM on 03/17/2010

Usually they call for violence against people and overthrowi­ng the system - that is not free speech but terrorism