Flashback Ceo Acquitted by District Court
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The racist posts on Flashback were incitement against a group of people. The founder Jan Axelsson was negligent in not removing them, the district court ruled. Nevertheless, he is acquitted. The negligence was not serious enough.
Jan Axelsson was charged with violating an unusual censorship law. But he was not grossly negligent, the district court found.
Flashback founder and CEO Jan Axelsson has been acquitted by the Stockholm District Court. He was charged with failing to remove posts containing hate speech from the online forum – but the court does not believe he failed to fulfill his responsibilities sufficiently to convict him.
Flashback founder and CEO Jan Axelsson has been acquitted in the district court for failing to remove posts that contained incitement against an ethnic group. “The court has confirmed that he has acted in accordance with the law,” says Axelsson’s lawyer Nils Hillert.
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