Another short update on my lawsuit against LINE. The third hearing took place on May 12, 2026.

The court confirmed the main points in dispute:

  1. Whether LINE has an obligation to provide service to me.
  2. Whether there was a legitimate reason for the account suspension.
  3. Whether the alleged “abnormal connection” actually occurred.

LINE elaborated a bit on what they mean by “abnormal connection.” According to their argument, my account showed connections to the LINE app from external servers other than LINE’s official servers.

As someone with software engineering background, I find this wording confusing. LINE provides a client to its users, as the server side is LINE’s own infrastructure. So either LINE’s lawyer is using “server” loosely, or they are alleging that something other than a normal user device (e.g. an automated script running server-side) was accessing my account. We should be asking for clarification.

For the record, I have only ever used LINE through the official clients on my own devices. I have no idea what LINE detected.

The next step is to file a written rebuttal. No date has been set yet for the next hearing.

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