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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. Well... by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 1, Interesting

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

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    1. Re:Well... by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Much like Italy covered up all those naughty Renaissance and classical nudes for the Iranian delegation, because, you know, genitals are EVIL!!!!!!!!!

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  2. Hold on now... by mujadaddy · · Score: 1, Interesting

    1) Fuck Facebook

    2) Fuck Facebook in the eye.

    3) Fuck Facebook in the eye with a broken bottle, but don't they just serve up content to French people? What is their liability here?

    Someone's going to bring up the privacy implications, but can we for one second take some responsibility for ourselves?

    This little Frenchman is upset because Facebook isn't letting him host content on their servers. What is his expected remedy here? If YOU owned a site and BOFH'd it and ruled with an iron fist, would you accept some pissant crying to city fucking hall about it?

    Fuck Facebook, but fuck this whole situation and everyone involved, too. My server. Fuck off. When you cut me a check to host your hairy pussy festival, then you can sue me.

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