Policing Online Comments in Europe: New Human Rights Case Law in the Real World
By Daphne Keller on April 12, 2016 at 5:00 am
This is the second of four posts on real-world consequences of the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECHR) rulings in Delfi v. Estonia and MTE v. Hungary. Both cases arose from national court rulings that effectively required online news portals to monitor users’ speech in comment forums. The first case, Delfi, condoned a monitoring requirement in a case involving threats and hate speech. Read more about Policing Online Comments in Europe: New Human Rights Case Law in the Real World