LIABILITY FOR USER-GENERATED COMMENTS
Decision by the European Court of Human Rights
The ECHR ruled today that Delfi (an Estonian commercially-run Internet news portal) was liable for the offensive online comments of its readers. Some consider this to be a serious blow to free speech online.
Press release
In today’s Grand Chamber judgment in the case of Delfi AS v. Estonia (application no. 64569/09) the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held, by 15 votes to two, that there had been no violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights.
This was the first case in which the …
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