Twitter v. UEJF, J’Accuse, MRAP, SOS Racisme and Licra, TGI Paris

Document type
Court Decision
Country
Paris Court orders Twitter to (i) provide identification information of Twitter users who had created allegedly racist and anti-Semitic hashtags on the ground of French Civil Procedure regulation (legitimate reason to keep essential evidence) and (ii) implement simple alert system to flag this kind of content (a flagging system already existed but it was difficult to access and in English language only).
Country
Year
2013
Topic, claim, or defense
Hate Speech
Dangerous Speech/Violent Extremism
Document type
Court Decision
Issuing entity
Lowest Domestic Court
Type of service provider
Host (Including Social Networks)
Issues addressed
Trigger for OSP obligations
OSP obligation considered
Block or Remove
Data Retention or Disclosure
Type of law
Civil
General effect on immunity
Weakens Immunity
General intermediary liability model
Other