[ExI] elon on twitter

[Dave S]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 9:01 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

That's not true. There's no legal distinction/protection applied to
"platforms":

  *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.*


https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-it-doesnt-matter
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