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To: sense who wrote (12268)12/3/2019 12:13:05 PM
From: SI Dave  Read Replies (1) of 12465
 
The issue of wanting to be a "publisher" and "not a publisher"

It's a distinction without a difference; that's merely a false distinction narrated by talking heads in the MSM that simply do not know what they are talking about.

Federal law 47 U.S.C. 230 specifically immunized interactive computer services from liability which arises from third-party content on their websites. There are some very narrow exceptions; copyright, federal criminal law, and, more recently, sex trafficking. the law unequivocally states that they "shall not be treated as the publisher" of third party content. It doesn't matter at all what they call themselves. In 1996, Congress knowingly and deliberately (and with rare great foresight) decided to treat online publishers differently from traditional print publishers. That decision laid the foundation for the modern internet and the domination of social media and other interactive websites by the United States companies, as opposed to countries that would hold them liable for their user's content.

So, Facebook isn't trying to trying to be either or both; they are an interactive computer service, as defined by 47 U.S.C. 230, and they are immunized from liability for their users' content and for their editorial decisions to publish, not publish or remove such content. All the discussion of "publisher" or "not publisher" is simply a false narrative without any distinction under the prevailing law.
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