In the past year a series of decisions and judgments of the International Criminal Court (ICC, the Court) have given rise to immediate and heated debate online, both on blogs and on Twitter. The most prominent in this regard are relatively well-known at this point, namely: the acquittal of Jean-Pierre Bemba on Appeal,1 the acquittal of Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé after a no-case-to-answer procedure,2 the decision by Pre-Trial Chamber II to not authorize the opening of an investigation in the situation of Afghanistan,3 and the long awaited Appeals Chamber Judgment on the issue of head of state immunity.4 This last judgment stands out because the Court issued, a few days after the judgment, an official Q&A, ‘purely for purposes of public information’, in which it not only directly addressed some of the criticism of the judgment that had been published online but also commented on the very practice of engaging in online commentary itself.