My understanding is that they shouldn’t enjoy the legal benefits of being a neutral platform while enjoying the freedom to be a publisher with editorial control. Pick one, operate as one.
Correct, but they both operate in principle and practice as platforms, and enjoy the resulting immunity. People have used Facebook, WhatsApp, etc to organize killings, and the companies do not get sued, to say nothing of potential legal liability they escape for libel, slander.
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“Correct” was all you had to say.
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Perhaps it’s time to then have these social media companies listed as utilities then.
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