On 3 October 2019, the CJEU made an important decision in case
C-18/18 with respect to the liability of hosting service providers
and whether they may be ordered to remove or block access to
content that they store.. As a reminder, hosting service providers
are subject to a specific liability regime regarding the
information they transmit or store for their clients, but of course
they remain subject to court injunctions. Accordingly, the CJEU
decided that a host provider, in this instance Facebook, may be
ordered to remove or to block access to information which was
published on its social network, the content of which was identical
to information previously declared to be unlawful.
