The European Court of Human Rights published a preliminary judgement in the case Høiness v. Norway, deciding that Internet (Web) forums are not liable for what visitors write (warning for PDF). This means that European web sites are currently under no obligation to delete visitor postings even if someone else visiting the forum dislikes what is written.
The domestic courts’ refusal to impose liability on an Internet forum for anonymously posted comments was not in breach of Article 8
In today’s Chamber judgment1in the case of Høiness v. Norway (application no. 43624/14) the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been:
no violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private life) of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The case concerned the domestic courts’ refusal to impose civil liability on an Internet forum host after vulgar comments about Ms Høiness had been posted on the forum.
The Court found in particular that the national courts had acted within their discretion (“margin of appreciation”) when seeking to establish a balance between Ms Høiness’s rights under Article 8 and the opposing right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the news portal and host of the debate forums. Moreover, the domestic court
However, the decision is not yet final and during the next three months any party may request that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber of the Court. If the Court recieves such a request and a panel of judges kicks it upwards, then the Grand Chamber will hear the case and deliver a final judgment. Otherwise the decision becomes final by default.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 20 2019, @11:00AM (5 children)
A Høiness once bit my sister... No realli! She was Karving her initials on the Høiness with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 20 2019, @12:19PM (4 children)
We apologise for the fault in the frosty piss. Those responsible have been sacked.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 20 2019, @04:46PM (2 children)
Høiness Trained by Ethanol-Fueled
Special Høiness Effects khallow
Høiness Costumes Bot
Høiness choerographed by DannyB
Miss Taylor's Høiness by takyon
Høiness trained to mix concrete and
sign complicated insurance forms by The Mighty Buzzard
Høiness noses wiped by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us
Large moose on the left hand side
of the screen in the third scene
from the end, given a therough
grounding in Latin, French, and
'O' level geography by Azuma Hazuki
Suggestive poses for the moose
suggested by Michael David Crawford
Antler-care by realDonaldTrump
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 20 2019, @05:14PM (1 child)
Anonymous... I fjart in your general direction.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 20 2019, @10:16PM
Now this is your last chance! I've been more than reasonable!
Run away! Run away!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 20 2019, @06:18PM
We apologise for the interruption, those responsible for firing the frosty pissers, have themself been fired.. and now for something completely different!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by rigrig on Wednesday March 20 2019, @11:34AM (6 children)
TFS conclusion of
seems a bit overreaching.
So basically all it means is that European courts are free to make reasonable rulings about forum operators who actually moderate their comment sections...
No one remembers the singer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 20 2019, @11:47AM (2 children)
Your post fails to not doesn't even not matter.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 20 2019, @12:52PM (1 child)
Module en_US.so.1 loaded.
Macro expansion:
Warning at line 1: Excessive negation. Did you mean "Your post fails to not does even matter", "Your post fails to does not even matter", or "Your post fails to does even not matter"?
Warning at line 1: Malformed auxiliary infinitive to does (verb: "to matter"). Reparsing as "Your post fails to do not even matter."
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Parser gave up.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 20 2019, @01:10PM
Fails to not = does
-> Your post does "does not even not matter".
Does not even not matter = does matter
-> Your post does "does matter".
(Score: 4, Funny) by Bot on Wednesday March 20 2019, @11:50AM
I guess the original disparaging comment was about the guy "not taking NO for an answer"?.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 20 2019, @12:31PM
You're hired! Please start rewriting TFS of any story currently in the queue. We'll be in touch regarding your free SN mug and $2 coupon to the coffee distillery of your choice.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 20 2019, @02:19PM
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday March 20 2019, @03:28PM
Folks in Norway voted, very wisely, not to join the horrible E.U., also known as European Union. But, they need to EXIT E.C.H.R., the Europe Convention of Human Rights. Otherwise known as something even longer. They need protection and security -- these rulings are making their country unsafe! I.S.I.S., Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and everyone else can tweet anomalously on their websites. Their internet. Very dangerous and unwise!
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday March 20 2019, @10:49PM
But what do Devin Nunes’ Mom and Cow say, on the twitter [rawstory.com]?
Meanwhile, in England, where the Brexit if Breaksiting, it is still a principle of the Queen's law that "the greater the truth, the greater the libel". It is a local nation, for local people, [fandom.com] and there is nothing for a European Commission on Human Rights. As Edmund Burke wrote [wikipedia.org], in response to that Commie American, Thomas Paine, and his "Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen" (Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789 [wikipedia.org]), there are no human rights, only rights of subjects of a monarchy, so Englishmen do not have "human rights", but only local, Englishmen's rights. So thank goodness the Royal Family of Scotland and the United Kingdom will soon no longer have to be subjected to freedom of speech by pleblians and all other such "modern" liberal ideas! Brexit forever! Just not until next month, OK? /sarc