Facebook is massive. More people use Facebook than live in the nation of China. And like any giant international operation, its size opens Facebook up to a barrage of varied lawsuits, most of which are not worth paying attention to.

A revenge porn lawsuit filed against the social media company that made headlines earlier this month, however, is worth keeping tabs on.

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“If they are liable for allowing revenge porn posts to stay up in other countries, they have to either have a different policy in each country or change the rule in the U.S. too,” Mark Lemley, the director of Stanford University’s Program in Law, Science, and Technology, told Mashable. “Internet companies sometimes do have different rules in different countries…but it’s harder to administer and it requires the company to figure out where its users are. At some point it becomes easier to just have a uniform rule.”