[Advisors] Manila Principles for Intermediary Liability

[Garth Graham]

Manila Principles for Intermediary Liability: a framework of safeguards and best practices for responding to requests for content removal;
https://www.manilaprinciples.org

"Concerned solely with the laws, policies, norms, and practices that relate to how intermediaries handle third-party Internet content that could raise criminal or civil liability issues for them or for their users. Specifically, the principles are meant to be directed at laws, policies, norms, practices, and private terms of service that relate to content removal or filtering as well as platform blocking by an intermediary.”

A lot of thought has gone into the preparation of these principles, from the perspective of "policies that can foster and protect a free and open Internet.”  I think it might be appropriate for TC to endorse them, especially since Bill C51 is clearly modifying the context for defending a free and open Internet in Canada in a very negative way.   There is a “jurisdictional analysis” chart of compliance that includes Canada.  It indicates we’ve work to do:
https://www.manilaprinciples.org/sites/default/files/jurisdictional-analysis.pdf

GG