Facebook Can Be Sued for Removing Nude Painting, French Court Rules

[Tyrianth]

Do you know how the internet works? You realize that Facebook is a free site? What next? Is Iran going to sue Google because its search engine links articles the government dislikes?

Iran has every right to sue Google if Google is operating illegally within their country, while capitalizing on Iranian citizens. Being free has nothing to do with it. Facebook is a business, and like all business are subject to the laws of all the countries they operate in.

It's a burden they willingly take on when they decide to become a multinational corporation.

[oxymoronic]

So what?

Anyone can sue anybody about just about anything.

However, winning the case is completely different matter.

Facebook is a private corporation, it can censor the content in any way it wants to.

true


but this is happening in europe where common sense is often abandoned

i mean ffs they sued google for displaying google results 1st lol

the idiots

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Iran has every right to sue Google if Google is operating illegally within their country, while capitalizing on Iranian citizens. Being free has nothing to do with it. Facebook is a business, and like all business are subject to the laws of all the countries they operate in.

It's a burden they willingly take on when they decide to become a multinational corporation.

what classifies as operating? be accessed by the citizens? i doubt they have any physical buildings there or even care about the iranian market one bit...

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It has nothing to do with "the internet", but with them operating in France.
If they do business in France, getting other French companies to advertise on their site, capitalizing on the information that French citizens share, using French news sites, etc. they are subject to French legislation.

so the basis of your comment is, IF IF IF

kinda pointless isnt it?

[Aeula]

Good, the censorship of the Internet has been going too far these past few years.

This is a decent victory against such censorship.

[nextormento]

so the basis of your comment is, IF IF IF

If they do X then Y.
You could connect the dots and figure that X is a factual reality: they do operate in France and are subject to their legislation.