Vannucci v. Twitter INC

On December 28, 2016, the Federal Civil and Commercial Court No. 2 of Argentina issued an injunction in which it differentiated orders according to the temporality of the publications, those already made and those to come. The case arose when the plaintiff took legal action against the social network (Twitter) after several users made offensive publications against her after she posted some photographs with her partner hunting animals in South Africa. Regarding the photos and comments made insulting and threatening the plaintiff, in the ruling, the judge ordered Twitter, as a precautionary measure, to remove the content referring to the plaintiff as “murderer”, “whore”, “Jew” , “scum”, “non grata”, “cockroach”, “bitch”, “shit”, accusing her of being a drug addict and seeking her “death”, “suffering”, and “pain”. The Court considered that the consequences for the plaintiff of maintaining the publications outweighed the harm that could be caused by removing them. However, the Court pointed out that restrictions did not apply to future publications, stressing that if the plaintiff identified offensive posts against her, each publication must be analyzed from a standard of proportionality and reasonableness. The Court did not specify who was responsible for monitoring the publications denounced by the plaintiff.

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