The Higher Regional Court in Munich, Germany held that Facebook must observe the right to freedom of expression when deleting or blocking a post or profile. An individual’s Facebook posts and profiles were blocked after Facebook determined that they violated its Community Standards, and he approached the courts for their restoration. After the lower court ordered the restoration, the Higher Regional Court agreed that Facebook did not have a non-reviewable discretion whether it deletes or blocks content and that it was bound by the requirements of the right to freedom of expression under article 5 of the German Basic Law. The Court held that Facebook may not remove or sanction a user’s expression of opinion which is permissible under the freedom of expression, but found that as one of the posts in question did constitute hate speech and so was not protected by the right to freedom of expression Facebook was entitled to remove that post.