A French mayor, Julien Sanchez, is seeking review of the Sanchez v. France decision in the European Court of Human Rights’ Grand Chamber which extended online intermediary liability rules to social media users. Last year, its lower chamber found that there was no violation of freedom of expression...
On March 7, 2018, the Council of Europe adopted a Recommendation on the roles and responsibilities of internet intermediaries, calling on states to ensure respect of human rights and rule of law in the digital environment.
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The Council of Europe today adopted policy guidelines addressed to its 47 member states on the roles and responsibilities of internet intermediaries such as search engines and social media. Read more at the Council of Europe.
This is the third of four posts on the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECHR) rulings in Delfi v. Estonia and MTE v. Hungary. In both cases, national courts held online news portals liable for comments posted by their users – even though the platforms did not know about them. These rulings...
This is the second of four posts on real-world consequences of the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECHR) rulings in Delfi v. Estonia and MTE v. Hungary. Both cases arose from national court rulings that effectively required online news portals to monitor users’ speech in comment forums. The first...
Last summer, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered a serious setback to free expression on the Internet. The Court held, in Delfi v. Estonia, that a government could compel a news site to monitor its users’ online comments about articles.* This winter, the Court’s...
Today, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered a long-awaited decision in Delphi AS v. Estonia. Confirming an earlier judgment rendered on October 10, 2013 by the Fifth Section of the ECHR, the Grand Chamber held that finding Delfi liable for comments posted by third...