A court in Switzerland has fined a man for "liking" comments deemed to be defamatory that were posted on Facebook.
The landmark case involved comments made about Erwin Kessler, the head of an animal protection group.
He was accused of being anti-Semitic and racist, media reports say. The Zurich district court said the defendant "clearly endorsed the unseemly content and made it his own" by liking comments.
The 45-year-old man liked six comments, according to Swiss newspaper Le Temps. Mr Kessler is reported to have sued more than a dozen people over various comments made on Facebook in 2015.
They were made in relation to a discussion over which animal rights groups should be allowed to participate in a vegan festival, the Tages Anzeiger newspaper reports. Several people have been convicted but none for only "liking" comments made by others.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40097792
Don't like Swiss facebook
Don't like Swiss facebook
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Another example of the folly of "hate speech" laws...
You can criticize the American model of a democratic republic all you like (there's certainly a lot to criticize) but when it comes to the protection of free speech I'll take the Constitutional guarantees our system provides over the European model every time...
You can criticize the American model of a democratic republic all you like (there's certainly a lot to criticize) but when it comes to the protection of free speech I'll take the Constitutional guarantees our system provides over the European model every time...
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I want that 'yay' emoticon! I don't get that option on the iOS version.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan