[5] It operates under a single name in the three Baltic states of Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia, and also in Ukraine.

[1] Because visitors of Delfi can anonymously comment on all news articles, the site generates debates over freedom of speech in the Baltic States.

Some members of the Estonian and Lithuanian parliaments have proposed laws making Delfi and other news portals responsible for the contents of anonymous comments.

[6][7] In September 2006, attorneys for Artūras Zuokas, mayor of Vilnius, asked public prosecutors to seize Delfi servers and reveal the IP addresses of all anonymous commentators who have written comments about him in several Delfi publications.

[8][9] In June 2015, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in Delfi AS v. Estonia that holding delfi.ee responsible for its readers' comments did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights' protection of freedom of speech.