I can understand it, but there is no reason to take such things personally.

I when reading it was angry, angry about how foolish somebody can be

In an interview he most likely would NOT have said anything thelike

You may have noted that one or two French speakers above found his command of French abysmal. Imagine, the man of Italian origin grew up in the French speaking part of Valais/Wallis and at age 23 still is unable to write properly !! You can speak about a lack of integration, while I might speak about "mentally retarded"

And so the argument goes full circle. Just don't put it on twitter please.

Twitter restores NBC Mr.Adams critic’s account

http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/201...ut-an-apology/

#NBC fail

Tschüss zusammen...

But in case of Switzerland, it also goes on the SVP. And that is only the tip of the Iceberg I presume.

And in opposition to LiB, I do not believe that this problem really is restricted to Switzerland. I suppose that the managers of Twitter at least should tell their users
> that what they write can bring them to court
> that anti-racism laws also apply to twitter-users
> that lawyers all over Europe work on laws to put the internet fully under the same legislation as life in general, which means laws and regulations
> that the judiciary has the possibility to trace you down
> that also law-enforcers use twitter, both in private and on their job

You may have read that the SVP politician I refer to said something like "ohhh I did NOT expect that people would notice ...."

and back to that kicker. He quite obviously did not have the courage to utter those things in the next pub available, not even to his colleagues.

A friend of me is a lawyer, who works on internet-laws, in conjunction with relevant organisations. And he just in April at a meeting of our association told me that they are on the right track. And racism IS a heavy concern.

Does this mean that they at Twitter are most respectful towards NBC ?

The probably thought "home" was somewhere in the Balkans

Just that you know: zotri is perfectly usual French slang for anybody "stupid". It's reversed triso, short for trisomique, but it means just idiot. In slang, a real trisomic person would be a gol. The guy doesn't write proper French but he didn't mean to either. It's the usual slang on internet used by his generation, a mix of spoken sociolect put into writing and abbreviations from the sms language. Nothing says that he couldn't write good French if he wanted to... or not, we just don't know. Everybody is like that in his generation.

This guy twitted it so people are against it, but that's how any youngster speaks and think in anywhere. The games as any sports, are reenacting the exclusion "us vs. them". Sports is an attempt to turn it into a positive regulated peaceful competition. It's meant to work as a pacifier collectively but individuals are individuals and express any kind of primitive or educated behaviour as they please. I am afraid that in the real world, there is quite a lot of primitive behaviour on individual basis. Not everybody is primitive enough to twitt it though.

Football players are there to play football. Fererer is there to play tennis and pose for annoying ads. They are not here to discuss politics or philosophy. If a philosopher misses a penalty in football, who cares. The opinions of these guys don't count for more than yours or mine.

Maybe the better question should be, should Twitter be responsible for policing its members and making sure nobody posts anything that's offensive. If offensive posting is fine, then it doesn't really matter to me whether it was my grumpy neighbor or some wannabe sports star.

He obviously thought that using dialect no one would notice he was being a dick.

Maybe we should set him up with that Greek girl. They can watch the Olympics together.

The way I see it, too many twits make a twat....