"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.
"Pretnja ogromnim kaznama može da dovede u pitanje opstanak medija i, što je još opasnije, uzrokuje autocenzuru, jer ni osnivač ni zaposleni u nekom mediju neće biti oslobođeni brige da li će biti kažnjeni za ono što bi slobodno rekli", ukazala je sudija Vesna Ilić-Prelić čitajući presudu suda.