The Regional Court (Landgericht) of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, issued a preliminary injunction ordering Twitter to cease and desist from disseminating statements —and monitor new posts— that violate the general right of personality of Dr. Michael Blume, the Anti-Semitism Commissioner of the state Baden-Württemberg, by accusing him of being anti-Semitic, an adulterer and having pedophilic tendencies. Dr. Blume applied for a preliminary injunction requesting the deletion of the aforementioned content and for Twitter to desist from disseminating these messages. The Court held that these tweets were unlawful defamatory statements violating Blume’s general right of personality. Referring to the jurisprudence of Germany’s Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH), the Court held that a hosting service has the obligation to remove unlawful content as soon as it obtains knowledge of it. This obligation, the Court argued, stems from the hosting service’s duty of care (“Störerhaftung”). The Court extended this obligation —making reference to rulings of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and the Bundesgerichtshof— to content on the platform that is substantially the same (“kerngleich”) or similar.