[citation needed] Born in Villach, Carinthia, Glawischnig attended gymnasium in Spittal an der Drau and took her Matura exams there.

[1] In that year she embarked on a career in regional politics for the Green Party of Vienna, later moving on to the federal level.

[1] She has been a member of the National Council of Austria (Nationalrat) since 1999[2] and became vice-chairperson of the Austrian Green Party in 2002.

[3] On 3 October 2008, Glawischnig became the Greens' federal spokeswoman following Alexander Van der Bellen's resignation.

The case became an important legal question of whether a court in the European Union could compel a social media company to globally censor a user's posting, even for viewers outside of the EU's jurisdiction.