‘Massadonor’ Jonathan Meijer must remove Donorkinderen from the right number of YouTube videos addressed

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‘Massadonor’ and influencer Jonathan Meijer must immediately remove YouTube films in which he makes undesirable contact with his donor children and makes statements about their parents. That The court in The Hague judged on Tuesday. Meijer, who donated sperm on a large scale and possibly has thousands of donor children, was sued last month by a donor parent and the Donorkind foundation. He would contact them undesirable through his YouTube channel and try to influence them through that way.

In his online content, he gives advice on, among other things, eating raw organ meats, he says that working in paid employment is’ slavery ‘and he calls on’Teenage Boys‘To a’trailwife‘To be searched. In various public interviews, Meijer was critical of donor parents and claimed that many donor children are also happy with so many brothers and sisters. The verdict is now also restricting those public statements by Meijer.

The summary proceedings on Tuesday was about whether the sperm donor went too far with his expressions, both in videos and publicly. Donor contracts prescribe that donors are not allowed to make contact with the children, that requires permission from the parents. The judge ruled that Meijer violated the donor agreement and places him on some videos, for example videos in which he speaks about the contact between himself, the donor children and their parents.

Meijer may continue to post videos that do not address the children or their parents on his channel. According to the judge, that falls under freedom of expression. The court did, however, gave the controversial massadonor a moral tap: it would “decorate” Meijer if he were reluctant in his videos with “extreme” groceries to his donor children.

Netflix documentary

Between 2007 and 2019 Meijer, who became internationally known by the Netflix documentary The man with 1,000 kidshis sperm through official sperms and unofficial global forums and websites. It is not known how often he donated and where exactly. Meijer himself says that he has 550 children, in the documentary the estimate is even around three thousand.

As a result of this documentary, Meijer was interviewed by various national and international media. On his YouTube channel he puts videos in which he says that parents who participated in the Netflix documentary have participated: he calls them ‘Bully moms“And” ridiculously bad parents who damage the donor children. ” One of those parents therefore handled the summary proceedings together with the Donorkind Foundation.

The lawyer of Stichting Donorkind, Lotte van Schuylenburch, says to NRC To be happy with the direct entrance to the prohibition: “The judge calls it plausible that Meijer will again be guilty of these types of expressions in the future, it is good that there are now consequences attached to this.” The judge imposed periodic pens of 10,000 euros a day on Tuesday when not removing videos, with a maximum of up to 100,000 euros.

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