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> Curated user generated content and a publisher are very different On the scale of facebook or twitter, not really. You have enough users that every conceivab

> Curated user generated content and a publisher are very different On the scale of facebook or twitter, not really. You have enough users that every conceivable opinion is going to show up on your platform, and by boosting or suppressing those opinions, you have basically exactly the same amount of power and influence as a traditional publisher.

adjkant 6y ago
> by boosting or suppressing those opinions, you have basically exactly the same amount of power and influence as a traditional publisher. Strong disagree there. First, on either platform, you can go seek out every opinion under the sun, it's users that do their own content selection. Not to mention that there are top-level features that break any user-bubble like Twitter + Trending. There's plenty of nuanced opinions on power/influence, but equal power/influence does not make them publishers, and I struggle to see how that relates to topics like moderation and liability. If these types of boosting/suppressing mechanisms are the policies actually in concern by people, this has nothing to do with all of the recent buzz/potential actions as any laws addressing that aren't going to get near that, only increase spam and abuse levels. Are you going to make a law that me choosing the people I follow on Twitter is illegal?