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Austrian court gives Facebook impossible order to remove “defamatory” “hate speech” globally
All “identical” and “equivalent” speech to a critical post against a politician is to be removed.
Glawischnig-Piesczek vs. Facebook could determine the future of social media upload filters
Back in 2016, a Facebook post containing an article with a photograph of the Austrian politician was posted alongside comments calling her a “corrupt oaf,” “lousy traitor” and so on.
EU free speech vs right to be forgotten case to be heard next week
In this case, Richard Cumbley of law firm Linklaters told Reuters, it would “create a serious clash with US concepts of freedom of speech, and other states might also try and suppress search results on a global basis reducing Google’s search engine to a list of the anodyne and inoffensive.”