<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 9:01 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
In a country where free speech is codified in a document which acknowledges natural rights that predate and supersede government, we are still struggling to define the differences and similarities between a publisher and a platform. It is all about who takes responsibility for content.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's not true. There's no legal distinction/protection applied to "platforms":</div><div> </div><div> <i>We’ll say it plainly here: there is no legal significance to labeling an online service a “platform” as opposed to a “publisher.” Yes. That’s right. There is no legal significance to labeling an online service a “platform.” Nor does the law treat online services differently based on their ideological “neutrality” or lack thereof.</i></div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-it-doesnt-matter">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-it-doesnt-matter</a></div></div></div>