Why a picture of a vagina could force Facebook to fight lawsuits outside California

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by Sindy Cator on March 6, 2015 at 2:33 pm

Facebook could soon have to fight a lot more lawsuits outside its native California. The high court in Paris ruled this week that it had jurisdiction in a case involving a French teacher who has his Facebook account suspended after posting a 19th century painting of a woman’s vagina, AFP reports. ‘L’Origine du Monde’ – ‘The Origin of the World’ – by Gustave Courbet, is part of the collection at Paris’s Musée d’Orsay. The French court ruled that it is abusive for Facebook’s terms and conditions to require that legal complaints against it only be filed in California. The teacher, whose…