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Facebook can be ordered to remove illegal content worldwide
- Thursday | 3rd October, 2019
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Facebook can be ordered to police and remove illegal content worldwide, Europe’s top court said on Thursday, in a landmark ruling that rights advocates say could allow authoritarian regimes to silence critics. “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 Court said in a statement. “It undermines the long-standing principle that one country does not have the right to impose its laws on speech on another country. The European Commission said the ruling was limited to court orders and doesn’t concern any other forms of notice by users alleging that certain content is illegal. The case is C-18/18 Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook Ireland Limited(Reporting By Jan Strupczewski; editing by John Stonestreet and Elaine Hardcastle)Likes
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