Please takedown Facebook (strike that, reverse it)

The EU is popping currently with directives and cases addressing the legal and social obligations of digital platforms.

Recently, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruled that an individual has a legally enforceable right to be forgotten and France passed new copyright laws requiring service providers like Google to pay publishers for showing snippets of news articles in search results.

The latest case has global implications. At the beginning of October, the ECJ held that the EU's e-commerce directive (Directive 2000/31/EC) can have global application.

We begin in Austria, where a politician sought an injunction against Facebook Ireland (which operates Facebook outside the United States and Canada, because #tax) after it refused to take down a statement publicly posted by another user that the politician claimed was defamatory. Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek wanted Facebook to take down the original post, as well as other posts with 'equivalent