Intermediaries like ISPs, hosting providers, and social networks are the global chokepoints for censorship, and tempting honeypots for government surveillance. How can activists and civil society successfully prevent these private actors from bowing to governments' or others' demands to restrict user content or hand over personal data?

The Manila Principles on Intermediary Liability are a new initiative led by digital rights groups around the world to set clear standards on states and companies in order to protect free speech, the right of association, the right to privacy and due process.

EFF's Jeremy Malcolm will join TA3M to talk about how the Principles were created, how diminishing intermediary liability affects the Net, recent developments, and how establishing new norms can protect small and innovative intermediaries, from blogs to mesh networks, from legal intimidation.