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Re:Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity... by pjc50 on Friday April 19, 2019 @07:00AM (#19698490)
That seems like an absolutely nonsensical outcome from the court. Does anyone have the court transcript? (yes I'm aware of the risks of reading machine translated legal German, but it would be interesting to know)

(I see that Facebook's ineffective harassment policy is at the root of this again)

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Re:Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity... by yorwba on Friday April 19, 2019 @07:46AM (#19698712)
The decision was apparently invalidated by a higher court and the trial has to be repeated: https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2019-03/sigri...
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Re:Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity... by peletiah on Friday April 19, 2019 @07:44AM (#19698701)
The first court decision has been overruled by the higher instance. However I don't agree with rmu09 that this was the trigger for this law.
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