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Why does that distinction matter? Is there language in campaign finance law that says news orgs are exempt from certain restrictions?
by 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 agoThanks 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.