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Judgments 29. July 2021 – III ZR 179/20 and III ZR 192/20 Der III. Civil Division of the Federal Court held, that the terms and conditions of Facebook dated 19. April 2018 for deleting user contributions and blocking accounts in the event of violations of the communication standards set out in the conditions are ineffective. In any case, this is true, because the defendant provider is not obliged to do so at the same time, to inform the user about the removal of his contribution at least retrospectively and about an intended blocking of his user account in advance, to inform him of the reason for this and to give him the opportunity to respond with a subsequent new decision. If a user's contribution was deleted due to the ineffective terms and conditions and his account was temporarily blocked, Has...

BGH judgment of 14. January 2020 – VI ZR 496/18 (u.a.) – yelp.de facts: The applicant takes account of their evaluation display on an Internet portal whose operators to cease and desist, Detection and damage claims. The defendant operates the Internet at www.yelp.de a Review Portal, rate in the company, registered users by awarding one stars up to five and a text. The Internet portal displays all user contributions and classifies them automatically by software and daily without manual control as either “recommended” or as “(currently) not recommended” on. When you call a company are up to five stars displayed with its name and presentation, the average of the award in the “recommended”...

The provision of § 5 Abs. 1 No.. 2 TMG commands – in Wortlautkongruenz implemented by the type. 5 Abs. 1 lit c Directive 2000/31/EC – specifying the address of electronic mail. This is the e-mail address. A fax number or a contact form does not satisfy.