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October 18, 2012 07:33 pm GMT

Twitter Blocks Account for Violating Local Law for the First Time


Twitter has banned an account in a single country on the request of local law enforcement for the first time. The micro-blog has had the ability to do so since January, but has not used its capability until this week.

The account in question, @hannoverticker, belongs to a neo-Nazi group operating in Germany called Besseres Hannover. The group has been watched for criminal behavior by local authorities since 2008, because Nazi imagery and propaganda is banned in German law.

Basseres Hannover was formally banned by law enforcement in late September. That's when local authorities asked Twitter to block the groups' account in Germany as part of a wider effort to disrupt the group's on…
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