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.
Transmission and Caching — Articles 11 and 12
Article 11 orders the technical layer: in transmission or providing access to the network, an intermediary service provider is not liable for the information if it was not the initiator of the transmission, did not select the recipient, and did not select or modify the content of the information; temporary storage is allowed only for as long as technically necessary for the transmission. The caching regime under Article 12 follows the same logic: automatic, intermediate and temporary storage earns exemption where no content-modifying changes are made, the update rules are observed and information removed at the source is deleted without delay. For the operator this means: precise documentation of the technical function is the basis for establishing the boundary of liability.