Twitter blocks neo-Nazi account in Germany

Within the US, Twitter has blocked the neo-Nazi group account after being accused of writing hatred tweets/speeches towards the foreigners. Twitter has confirmed that they have ‘complied with a request by German authorities’ where they have been monitoring activates of the banned group- Besseres Hannover for some time. The san-Francisco company has confirmed that they have used a device as a way to monitor the content breeched/. "We announced the ability to withhold content back in Jan," Twitter's lawyer, Alex Macgillivray, tweeted. The movement came around after they investigated twenty members of the neo- Nazi group in Lower Saxony as they were charged with ‘racial hatred’ and ‘forming a criminal organization’. They were recently banned last month by the state’s interior ministry. There was estimated to have forty members accused of conjuring up a threatening video that was sent to the lower Saxony Aygül Özkan. A twitter spokesman confirmed that the tweets were available outside Germany as the German police weren’t able to ban overseas.

In my opinion

In my opinion, twitter has been ‘playing with fire’ and don’t seem to have enough authority or control over what goes on to twitter. They banned the group a month later, but the damage has been done already and people have become victims of racial discrimination. As they can’t even block it globally, conveys how the same will be approached in the future and Twitter won’t have any control whatsoever.