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By that logic wouldn't Fox News be the subject of a campaign finance investigation?

• zucker42 7y ago
  I think they're not because of free speech. The question is whether banning people from your platform counts as speech. Which it probably does.
  • theseatoms 7y ago
    Pretty sure cable news is legally designated as "entertainment".
    • jacquesm 7y ago
      The damage is real.
• vxNsr 7y ago
  Nope. Fox News, and all news orgs are publishers, Twitter, Facebook and co are platforms. Fox News and CNN are responsible for anything published on their website. Twitter, fb, etc are not.
  • foxtr0t 7y ago
    Why does that distinction matter? Is there language in campaign finance law that says news orgs are exempt from certain restrictions?
    • ScottFree 7y ago
      Thanks for asking this question. I hadn't actually looked into the legal precedents until now. This is a decent article on the subject: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=1804a02d-a015-4b94-ae11-776860154802 https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=1804a02d-a015... tl;dr: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 states, "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." The courts have upheld on multiple occasions (Pennie v. Twitter, Inc.; Fields v. Twitter, Inc.; Murphy v Twitter, Inc.) that Twitter is a provider of an interactive computer service.