Facebook – Court Ruling (Germany, 2019)

"In September 2018, a man from Düsseldorf had obtained a temporary injunction from the Düsseldorf Regional Court, which prohibited the Irish-based company Facebook from blocking the man from posting a specific text on www.facebook.com or from deleting the post. He had this injunction served on Facebook without an English translation. Facebook claimed that the company did not understand the content and needed an English translation." *https://www.olg-duesseldorf.nrw.de/behoerde/presse/Presse_aktuell/20200107_PM_Facebook/index.php* "The 7th Civil Senate ruled that the understanding of the language depends on the organization of the company as a whole. Facebook has a large number of users in Germany to whom the platform is made available entirely in German. The contractual documents used for this purpose are also in German. Concrete formulations in the terms of use show a thorough knowledge of the German language and German law. The Senate had to deal with this question because the man from Düsseldorf claimed the costs incurred by him in the amount of approximately EUR 730. This requires service of the preliminary injunction. The Senate had to clarify the validity of this service. The content of the contribution, which was not to be deleted, was irrelevant to the decision." *https://www.olg-duesseldorf.nrw.de/behoerde/presse/Presse_aktuell/20200107_PM_Facebook/index.php*