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Thursday, 3 October 2019

EU courts can now force Facebook to remove ‘illegal comments’ worldwide


Europe’s top court, the CJEU, has ruled that Facebook must now remove any comments EU courts deem illegal worldwide (such as hate speech), making sure they’re completely removed from its platform, Reuters reports. “EU law does not preclude a host provider like Facebook from being ordered to remove identical and, in certain circumstances, equivalent comments previously declared to be illegal,” the EU’s top court declared. “In addition, EU law does not preclude such an injunction from producing effects worldwide, within the framework of the relevant international law.” #ECJ : #EU law does not preclude a host provider such as #Facebook…

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