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I will repeat a comment I made on another article: treat certain surfaces of social media companies, mainly the user specific pages (Donald Trump's twitter page
by RestlessMind 7y ago
I will repeat a comment I made on another article: treat certain surfaces of social media companies, mainly the user specific pages (Donald Trump's twitter page, PewDiePie's YT channel etc) as a platform; treat other surfaces which are generated based on algorithms and not directly by individual users (FB feed, YT watch feed, reddit homepage etc) as a publisher. That way, social media companies won't be responsible for what their users upload. But they will be responsible for what they present to their users to optimize clicks / engagement / revenue etc.
- iron0013 7y agoNo, they won’t, because the conservative “platform” vs “publisher” meme has no basis in legal reality.