A deep dive into the platform liability aspects of the Law Commission's proposals for reform of strict liability contempt of court.
Graham Smith
@cyberleagle.bsky.social
IT and internet lawyer. Sceptical tech enthusiast. Reposts and links are not endorsements. All views my own. No posts are legal advice. www.cyberleagle.com
New on my blog: Contempt of court and platform liability. www.cyberleagle.com/2026/08/cont...
Contempt of court and platform liability
Graham Smith's blog on law, IT, the internet and online media
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Cross-border information notices again. “… a question about jurisdiction. X’s position is that Australia’s authority stops at its border, and that a regulator in Canberra should not be able to post demands to an office in California.” thenextweb.com/news/x-says-...
X says Australia’s under-16 crackdown breaks international law
Elon Musk’s X says Australia’s plan to toughen enforcement of its under-16 social media ban would breach international law.
thenextweb.com
New on my blog: Contempt of court and platform liability. www.cyberleagle.com/2026/08/cont...
Contempt of court and platform liability
Graham Smith's blog on law, IT, the internet and online media
cyberleagle.com
Re-upping, with reference to TikTokers equipped with smart glasses pestering people in public.
Graham Smith@cyberleagle.bsky.social · 2y agoAmidst all the current public dust-ups about progress and scope of the #OnlineSafetyAct, I continue to remain mystified as to why the authorities have not been educated in the use of ASBOs (now called IPNAs) for perpetrators of egregiously anti-social online behaviour.
AI Crisis Flowchart von @klonick.bsky.social, ich musste den Teil mit der EU hervorheben.
Kate Klonick@klonick.bsky.social · last wk.Sat down to write about the Hugging Face/AI incident. Ended up drawing this instead.
Fascinating UK Supreme Court decision on sovereign immunity and the location of cross-border hacking. supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc...
supremecourt.uk
"The Committee is inviting written contributions to be submitted by 5.00pm on Monday 7 September 2026." While Parliamentarians head off on recess, everyone else is supposed to spend August redesigning the Online Safety Act for them. Got it.
"It is now clear that the Act is not working as well as it should. We want to understand why." #OnlineSafetyAct committees.parliament.uk/work/9955/th...
Online Safety Act inquiry launched by Committee - Committees - UK Parliament
The Communications and Digital Committee has today launched a new inquiry into the implementation, enforcement and impact of the Online Safety Act.
committees.parliament.uk
Interesting to see that the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers Recommendation on Online Safety etc appears to view safety by design and risk mitigation as including content-specific measures.
Without comment: snippet from the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers Recommendation on Online Safety etc.
I wonder, do the authors of the #OnlineSafetyAct Additional Measures realise that the UK has signed up to this (in the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers Recommendation on Online Safety etc)?
Since the notorious S.127(1) Communications Act 2003 is still with us, time for a GenAI version of my 2015 potted history of the section: 'From Telegram to Tweet", in the style of The Rake's Progress. www.cyberleagle.com/2015/02/from...
Toothless Ofcom can’t keep Britons safe online. Will Andy Burnham? It’s time to question whether the media regulator is fit for purpose after £950,000 fine for forum hosting pro-suicide content goes unpaid, writes Patricia Clarke https://bit.ly/4wO991w
Toothless Ofcom can’t keep Britons safe online. Will Andy...
It’s time to question whether the media regulator is fit for purpose after £950,000 fine for forum hosting pro-suicide content goes unpaid
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Great in its way. But government going down the high street making a list of deplorables also feels quite uncomfortable. (BBC)
Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.
This Cyberleagle blogpost was referenced in Ofcom's Statement on Detecting Intimate Image Abuse: "As to the foreseeability of the measure’s impact on regulated services and users, a legal commentator noted that another proactive technology measure that we consulted on does not... 1/3
"Remember that £100 I'm giving you?" "Yes." "Can we make it a loan?" "OK." "Good, that means I've now got £100 to spend on presents." "Huh?"
This Cyberleagle blogpost was referenced in Ofcom's Statement on Detecting Intimate Image Abuse: "As to the foreseeability of the measure’s impact on regulated services and users, a legal commentator noted that another proactive technology measure that we consulted on does not... 1/3
So devolving powers actually means issuing central orders to the provinces. And turning international grants into loans is just an accounting trick: it doesn‘t make cash available now. How dim does he think voters are?
Continuing the pastime of creating GenAI versions of past Cyberleagle blogposts. Today, from 2012, Pre-Raphaelite Regulatory Convergence. www.cyberleagle.com/2012/01/regu...
Continuing the pastime of creating GenAI versions of past Cyberleagle blogposts. Today, from 2012, Pre-Raphaelite Regulatory Convergence. www.cyberleagle.com/2012/01/regu...
And the first big Ministerial decision will be whether to drop a comma on the logo.
Nandy stays in post because everyone is too embarrassed to admit they forgot about DCMS again