Facebook and other social networks are not allowed to simply delete hateful posts or block accounts
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...