"The threat of enormous penalties can put the survival of the media in question and, what is even more dangerous, can cause auto-censorship, because neither the founder nor the employees of a medium will be free from the worry of whether they will be punished for what they have to say freely," Judge Vesna Ilic-Prelic said, reading from the court ruling.
"Prijetnja ogromnim kaznama može dovesti u pitanje opstanak medija, a što je još opasnije, može rezultirati i autocenzurom, jer se ni osnivač ni medijski zaposlenici neće moći riješiti zabrinutosti uslijed mogućeg kažnjavanja zbog onog što žele reći", rekla je sutkinja Vesna Ilić-Prelić, čitajući iz sudske presude.