Legal Review of the Draft Law on Better Law Enforcement in Social Networks
The Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media commissioned this legal analysis of the draft law On Better Law Enforcement in Social Networks (NEA), from Prof. Dr. Bernd Holznagel LLM, Director of the Institute of Information, Telecommunications and Media Law (ITM) at Münster University in May 2017. The analysis was sent to the German authorities on 19 May 2017. Prof. Dr. Holznagel was invited to a public deliberation at the German federal parliament (Bundestag) to present his findings. This review was published on the OSCE website on 1 August 2017 following the appointment of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir.
The law itself can be found in English here: www.bmjv.de/NetzDG.
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