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gabordemooij ◴[] No.23355825[source]
I don't see the problem, just reject the special privs for twitter and treat it like a publisher. It should be fairly simple, either you do not moderate at all (and your not responsible for whatever people say on your platform) or you moderate and therefore you publish. It aint that hard. Twitter clearly moderates, that's fine, so it should be treated as a publisher, not as a public 'facility'. Simple.
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pps43 ◴[] No.23355867[source]
Twitter does not want to be a publisher, because then lots of people will sue it for libel and other nasty stuff in twits.
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NeverFade ◴[] No.23355907[source]
So it should stop editorializing and moderating.
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JakeTheAndroid ◴[] No.23355946[source]
But they aren't generating the content, users are. Why should they be responsible for what you say? And it's their platform, why are you entitled to it insofar they can't moderate?

Can Amazon not kick people off their servers without being responsible as a publisher? At what point can a company no longer decide what happens within their ecosystem?

I thought we appreciated freedom of speech in the US, and that includes freedom to ignore speech.

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1. gabordemooij ◴[] No.23359488[source]
They are generating content because they process it by filtering 'unwanted' parts.