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    Home»Sections»Facebook may be ordered to block users’ offensive posts globally

    Facebook may be ordered to block users’ offensive posts globally

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    Facebook may be ordered to remove offensive content posted by users in the European Union and then also hunt for similar posts anywhere in the world, an adviser to the bloc’s top court said.

    Since the EU’s law for digital services and electronic commerce “does not regulate the territorial scope of an obligation to remove information disseminated via a social network platform, it does not preclude a host provider from being ordered to remove such information worldwide”, advocate-general Maciej Szpunar of the EU court of justice said on Tuesday in a non-binding opinion.

    Scrutiny of Facebook in the EU has intensified since the bloc introduced strict new privacy rules a year ago, giving data regulators for the first time real teeth and the power to fine companies as much as 4% of annual sales for the most serious violations. Antitrust regulators, too, have been probing the social network over how it tracks users’ Internet browsing.

    The ruling … will help clarify to what extent social media companies such as Facebook must police posts by users worldwide

    The ruling by the EU court, expected in a few months, will help clarify to what extent social media companies such as Facebook must police posts by users worldwide. The case seeks to establish how far-reaching EU law, or the powers of the bloc’s courts go, in protecting EU users of online social media companies that can be accessed from around the globe.

    The same advocate-general at the EU’s top court in January sided with Google in its fight against having to apply a so-called right to be forgotten globally, in a case that seeks to draw the line between privacy and freedom of speech. The EU court follows the advice of its advocates-general in a majority of cases.

    Dispute

    The underlying dispute in the Facebook case concerns Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek, a former Green member of the European parliament from Austria, who was the subject of a number of offensive posts on a Facebook user’s account. She sought an order against the company to block any further publication of pictures of her if the text alongside them included similarly offensive content.

    The Austrian supreme court sought guidance from the EU judges on how far-reaching EU law was geographically in forcing companies, such as Facebook, to block such content. It also asked whether under EU law companies could be forced to remove any content from its platform “with an equivalent meaning” to illegal information is has been made aware of.  — Reported by Stephanie Bodoni, (c) 2019 Bloomberg LP

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