Thread:Comments:European Court of Justice says Facebook must remove 'illegal' posts globally/Freedom of speech in the European Union

I found this to be extremely troubling. In the US, even if Glawischnig-Piesczek was a private citizen, this would have been laughed out of court as mere insults. As a public person, it is doubly preposterous. She likely would have been forced to pay Facebook's legal costs per anti-SLAPP legislation in most states.

I am less concerned with the alarmists who say this paves the way for authoritarian states to censor the wider internet. Singapore, if I recall correctly, recently made a law which allows the government to decide what is and isn't fake news. I doubt hosts such as Facebook would heed Singapore and remove things globally, though local removal is disturbing enough.

Nevertheless, I see this as detrimental to free speech.