"The case has been closely watched
because of its potential ripple effects for regulating internet
content. The enforcement of defamation, libel and privacy laws varies
from country to country, with language and behavior that is allowed in
one nation prohibited in another. The court’s decision highlights the
difficulty of creating uniform standards to govern an inherently
borderless web and then enforcing them.
Facebook
and other critics have warned that letting a single nation force an
internet platform to delete material elsewhere would hurt free
expression...
Last week, the European Court of Justice limited the reach of the European privacy law known as the “right to be forgotten,”
which allows European citizens to demand Google remove links to
sensitive personal data from search results. The court said Google could
not be ordered to remove links to websites globally, except in certain
circumstances when weighed against the rights to free expression and the
public’s right to information."
