No surprises here. In France, this has been the case for a long time btw: when you allow comments on your publication (print or web) you basically owe them and

No surprises here. In France, this has been the case for a long time btw: when you allow comments on your publication (print or web) you basically owe them and are responsible and liable for them. Prior jurisprudence includes Yahoo selling Nazi artifacts and getting fined for it. [1] If some nut job writes crap on your site you're basically in charge of monitoring and removing it. And in most of Europe, some things are simply off boundaries and not subjected to free speech - in contrast with the US. In particular hate speech. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LICRA_v._Yahoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LICRA_v._Yahoo!