New Intermediary Liability Cases from the European Court of Human Rights: What Will They Mean in the Real World?

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 lower chamber ruled the other way in MTE v.Related Topics: ECHREU lawEuropean Court of Human RightsIntermediary Liability