Posted By LambChop
Twitter is getting sued. Why? Anti -gay hashtags. In France. This one is going to be difficult to pin on American Republicans or people who ate at Chick-fil-A in the last year… but where there’s a will, there’s a way.
The French committee that organizes the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, (IDAHO) announced its plans to file lawsuits against Twitter in France and California for the propagation of anti-gay “hate speech.”
"This is a completely blatant call for the death and murder of gay people. It is totally unacceptable," Alexandre Marcel of IDAHO told France's The Local, adding, "Could you imagine being a 17 or 18-year-old gay person logging on to Twitter ... and seeing messages that call for you to be killed?"
According to the committee, nearly 10,000 Tweets were posted using the hashtag, #LesGaysDoiventDisparaitreCar . Translated the hashtag means: "Gays Must Disappear/Die Because”
Following the proliferation of the "Gays Must Die" hashtag, other anti-gay hashtags popped up in France, including #SiMonFilsEstGay (If My Son Is Gay), #TeamHomophobe and, most recently, #BrulonsLesGaysSurDu (Burn Gays On The).
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