Protected Expression in Closed Online Forum

CK - Washington.   Without fear of disclosure to third parties, users of closed online mailing lists may express and form their opinion in forum exchanges. A German court decided in favor of a forum member whose critical comments a non-member had published and ridiculed outside of the forum. The Stuttgart district court found in favor of an expectation of legitime privacy which it balanced against the third-party publisher's freedom …

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