<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeroenhd</author><text>Slander and libel are criminal offences in the Netherlands. If a crime had been committed against someone, they should have the means to seek justice.&lt;p&gt;Normally, you wouldn&amp;#x27;t need Facebook to disclose any names because Facebook isn&amp;#x27;t anonymous 99% of the time. There are plenty of anonymous and pseudonymous forums that would be at risk and yes they too have to follow warrants should the court decide against them.&lt;p&gt;If Facebook wants to stay out of such cases, they should either leave the jurisdictions where such warrants are possible (so planet earth, probably) or they should enforce non-anonymous posts so plaintiffs can sue each other without involving a court warrant first.</text><parent_chain><item><author>trepanne</author><text>It is news to me that websites can so easily be coerced to fork over user data by private citizens prosecuting fairly petty civil actions.  Is this about par for the course in European jurisprudence, or a high water mark for right to due process in the digital age?&lt;p&gt;The first order effects seem pretty benign, even salutary - but I’m not sure the court really thought through all the implications here.&lt;p&gt;Is the Dutch legal system inviting themselves to become a party to every single he said&amp;#x2F;she said drama on Facebook?&lt;p&gt;What will Facebook need to do to extricate themselves from such an odious entanglement?</text></item><item><author>oldgradstudent</author><text>Why is it news that Meta has to answer to a subpoena issued by a court in a country they operate in legally?&lt;p&gt;I was under the impression that this is routine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta forced to reveal anonymous Facebook user&apos;s identity</title><url>https://stackdiary.com/meta-forced-to-reveal-anonymous-facebook-users-identity/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mellosouls</author><text>&lt;i&gt;fairly petty civil actions&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re the person having their reputation smeared by anonymous cowards it maybe doesn&amp;#x27;t seem so &amp;quot;petty&amp;quot; as you dismiss.&lt;p&gt;This seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do; have the person slandering somebody anonymously brought into the light where there is a level playing field in which they can present their case.</text><parent_chain><item><author>trepanne</author><text>It is news to me that websites can so easily be coerced to fork over user data by private citizens prosecuting fairly petty civil actions.  Is this about par for the course in European jurisprudence, or a high water mark for right to due process in the digital age?&lt;p&gt;The first order effects seem pretty benign, even salutary - but I’m not sure the court really thought through all the implications here.&lt;p&gt;Is the Dutch legal system inviting themselves to become a party to every single he said&amp;#x2F;she said drama on Facebook?&lt;p&gt;What will Facebook need to do to extricate themselves from such an odious entanglement?</text></item><item><author>oldgradstudent</author><text>Why is it news that Meta has to answer to a subpoena issued by a court in a country they operate in legally?&lt;p&gt;I was under the impression that this is routine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta forced to reveal anonymous Facebook user&apos;s identity</title><url>https://stackdiary.com/meta-forced-to-reveal-anonymous-facebook-users-identity/</url></story>