Grand confusion after Sanchez v. France: Seven reasons for concern about Strasbourg jurisprudence on intermediaries

Autor: Husovec, Martin, Grote, Tatjana, Mazhar, Yara, Mikhaeil, Cham, Escalona, Harold Miñarro, Kumar, Pragya Sinha, Sreenath, Sanjana
Zdroj: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law; 20240101, Issue: Preprints
Abstrakt: The latest Grand Chamber decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Sanchez v. Francemakes the previous Delfitest absolutely unpredictable. This article explains why the uncertainty now concerns almost every single aspect of this test, and why case law hardly offers any guidance on the most basic questions. It is argued that with Sanchez, the Strasbourg case law on liability for the speech of others online officially descended into chaos without a proper sense of direction. Grand confusion about Sancheznow has the potential to threaten legal certainty introduced by EU law, as illustrated by its application in Zöchling v. Austria. Despite the Court's proclaimed deference to national law and increased use of the subsidiarity principle, it is striking that democratically adopted European legislation about digital services has been ignored for so long in Strasbourg. Sancheznow raises a serious prospect that the ECtHR is on a collision course with the EU's newly adopted legislation, the Digital Services Act, that builds on the last 20 years of rules.
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