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French Court Rules That Facebook Can Now Be Sued in France (thestack.com)

Posted by yaelk on from the the-french-didnt-surrender dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A Paris court of appeal has ruled in favor of a French complainant whose account was suspended, because he linked to an image of the 1866 Gustav Courbet nude 'L'Origine du monde', currently residing at the Musee d'Orsay. The appeals court not only agreed that the user's suspension by Facebook constitutes censorship, but the ruling itself negates Facebook's insistence that all legal challenges take place in its native California.

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  1. Incorrect Summary by Translation+Error · · Score: 5, Informative

    The appeals court not only agreed that the user's suspension by Facebook constitutes censorship, but the ruling itself negates Facebook's insistence that all legal challenges take place in its native California.

    According to the article, the court didn't say anything about the alleged censorship. It just ruled that the clause in Facebook's terms and conditions that all lawsuits had to take place in California was invalid.

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    1. Re: Incorrect Summary by yacc143 · · Score: 4, Informative

      That's obvious because in all European countries consumer protection laws require law suits to be located at the court of the residence of the consumer.

      So requiring a consumer to sue away from his residence is obviously not possible.

  2. Re:Well... by stephanruby · · Score: 5, Informative

    Facebook could have just put a fig leaf over the offending parts...

    For the puritanical Americans and for the Middle East.

    For everyone else, they could have just left the image as is.