Platform Liability — the Legal Regime of Intermediary Services
Platform liability in Georgia is built on three types of intermediary service: the transmission of information (Article 11), caching (Article 12) and hosting (Article 13) — terms defined in Article 2. For each type the law sets the conditions of exemption from liability, prohibits a general monitoring obligation (Article 14) and constructs the agency's supervision and fine (Articles 16 and 20), together with the appeal route (Article 21) — a complete architecture that the operator must read as one system. This page explains the regime from the operator's practical perspective.
For the operator the first question is always classification: which type of intermediary service the platform supplies for each function — transmission, caching or hosting. In practice a platform often combines all three functions in different sections, which is exactly why liability analysis unfolds by function: email transmission stands under the transmission regime, a temporary copy under caching, and the storage of user content under hosting. Without this division neither the exemption conditions can be verified nor the notice-handling procedure built.