Germany: Constitutional Court acquits politician seeking data on 22 Facebook users to sue

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The Constitutional Court of Germany was drafted today by a politician who asked to be given the personal details of many of its users Facebookto turn against them in the courts for the defamatory comments they made against her.

THE Green MP Renate Kunast had requested the information to sue the authors 22 abusive commentsmany of which were sexist or violent.

The court found that the comments came from a blog and subsequent posts in a discussion of statements made by members of that party in the 1980s about pedophilia. Karlsruhe judges rejected the rulings of two Berlin courts that ruled that only 12 of the 22 comments were prosecutable and refused to give Kunast the details of the other 10 authors. They sent the case back to the Berlin Court of Appeals for reconsideration. of 10 comments and decide if Facebook should disclose the details of these users as well.

Twitter and Facebook, as well as Google, have filed lawsuits in Germany against a new law on online hate speech, alleging that it violates their users’ right to privacy.

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