It was not until a ministerial discussion on combating online disinformation on Thursday 23 May that the future of the ‘e-commerce' directive was publicly discussed. During its speech, Austria officially called for the reopening of this directive, which provides for an exemption from liability for platforms.
Austria lays its cards on the table
So Pandora’s box is open. The issue of platform liability is not a new one. But the European Commission had so far tried to circumvent it: in...