[Advocacy Advisors] Hungarian Constitutional Court holds content providers responsible for unmoderated comments

[Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov]

Thanks, Tisza, for the update! So I guess this cements it then? Any chance
anybody can change the rule in Hungary from now on?

Dimi


2014-06-29 20:32 GMT+02:00 Tisza Gergő <gtisza at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> this is a couple weeks old news, I haven't had time to post it sooner.
>
> The Constitutional Court (more or less the Hungarian equivalent of the
> Supreme Court) has decided [1] (upholding the three decisions made by
> lower-level courts) that internet providers can be held responsible for
> libelous comments on a website they provide, even if there was no
> moderation or other process through which they could have learned of the
> comments beforehand, and even if they removed the comments as soon as they
> were made aware.
>
> News reports with more details:
>
> http://budapesttimes.hu/2014/06/22/court-decision-a-blow-to-internet-comment/
>
> http://budapestbeacon.com/featured-articles/constitutional-court-limits-freedom-of-expression-in-hungary/
>
> [1] Case IV/5/2013, Examination of constitutional complaint regarding the
> right to freedom of expression
>
> http://public.mkab.hu/dev/dontesek.nsf/0/4E4D071867671629C1257B0C00212E7F?OpenDocument
>
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