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The European Court of Justice ruled that national courts in Europe can order online platforms to remove defamatory content worldwide and that individual countries can order Facebook to take down posts, photographs and videos and restrict global access to that material. The top court’s decision came following a complaint by an Austrian politician who wanted to remove disparaging comments about her on Facebook.
EU's ruling comes at a crucial juncture when similar matters are pending in Indian courts, the lawyers said.
“It is a foreign court’s judgement. It will not have a direct impact but will have persuasive value because similar matters are pending before Indian courts as well,” a lawyer familiar with developments concerning the company said.
In July last year Antony Clement Rubin filed a petition in the Madras High court<\/a> seeking the linking of Aadhaar with social media user profiles for authentication of identity as Rubin claimed he had been cyberbullied and was a victim of defamatory posts on Facebook. A division bench of the Madras High Court has since expanded the scope of the petition to include issues such as curbing cybercrimes and intermediary liability within the ambit of the legal proceedings.
In August, Facebook and WhatsApp<\/a> sought the transfer of four similar petitions on linking social media accounts with Aadhaar from various high courts to the Supreme Court. On September 24, the Supreme Court asked the government to file an affidavit in three weeks on the status of intermediary guidelines with definite timelines on them in the transfer petition matter and directed the government to curb social media misuse but ensure user privacy.
Advocate Virag Gupta, who had sought impleadment in the matter, said that while Indian law already has rules for removal of objectionable content including fake news and hate speech<\/a>, they are hardly enforced. “India is the biggest market for social media companies and this judgement provides a good opportunity to evolve a new set of cyber jurisprudence,” said Gupta.
A technology lawyer for one of the social media platforms said the move might propel the government to accelerate the pace of notifying the IT intermediary rules.
“If the complaints are found to be offensive to somebody or if the platform contains defamatory articles or content that has the effect of infringing individual rights, the decision implies that the courts will have the power to not only remove the content from that particular country but also from other countries. A company like Facebook or an intermediary should be amenable to the jurisdiction of the court in that particular country. Then the court will have the power to pass directions,” another lawyer added.
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欧洲法院裁定,在欧洲国家法院可以在线订购平台删除诽谤性内容全球各个国家可以顺序Facebook网站上的帖子,照片和视频和限制全球访问材料。最高法院的决定是由奥地利政治家的投诉在Facebook上想删除的负面评论她。
欧盟的裁决是在关键时刻在印度法庭也将出台类似的问题时,律师说。
“这是一个外国法院的判决。它不会有直接影响,但会有说服力的价值,因为类似的问题等待印度法庭,”律师熟悉发展有关。
去年7月安东尼克莱门特鲁宾提交了一份请愿书马德拉斯高等法院寻求Aadhaar的链接与社交媒体用户配置文件用于身份验证的身份鲁宾声称他受到侮辱和诽谤帖子在Facebook上的受害者。板凳上一个部门的马德拉斯高等法院已经扩展了请愿书的范围包括遏制网络犯罪等问题和中介责任范围内的法律诉讼。
今年8月,Facebook和WhatsApp寻求转让四个类似请愿连接社交媒体账户和Aadhaar各高等法院到最高法院。9月24日,最高法院要求政府文件的证词三周中介地位的指导方针有明确的时间表在转会申请物质和指导政府抑制社会媒体滥用但确保用户隐私。
提倡Virag古普塔曾在,寻求impleadment说,虽然印度法律已经删除规则包括假新闻和令人反感的内容乐动扑克仇恨言论,他们也很难执行。“印度是最大的社交媒体公司和这个判断市场提供了一个很好的机会去发展一套新的网络法学”古普塔说。
社交媒体平台的技术的律师表示,此举可能会推动政府加快通知它中间的规则。
“如果投诉发现冒犯某人或如果平台包含诽谤性文章或内容,侵犯个人权利的影响,意味着法院的决定不仅将有权移除特定国家的内容也从其他国家。像Facebook这样的公司或中介机构应该服从特定国家的法院管辖。然后法院将有权通过方向,”另一个律师补充说。
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