Liability of the internet intermediary for hate speech: how far should it go?
- Explain and compare freedom of expression and hate speech
- Examine a controversial issue that should the internet platform be responsible for third party content? Even though such intermediaries do not produce hate speech content by themselves, they store and transmit such information. Accordingly, it is their duty to monitor and remove those illegal contents.
- Analyze how hate speech and free speech could be balanced in order to examine how far an online intermediary’s liability should be. A heavy burden of an intermediary would restrict freedom of expression and impede innovation.
- Compare in different jurisdictions. For example, China and India have imposed strict liability to the intermediary, failure to comply would lead to severe penalties. Meanwhile, in the US there are wide exemptions of intermediary’s liability, granting them immunity to a monetary penalty.
