It is a gray area and social media platforms sit somewhere in-between being a common carrier and a being a publisher. Your right there is no hard legal line but

It is a gray area and social media platforms sit somewhere in-between being a common carrier and a being a publisher. Your right there is no hard legal line but the more they decide what is allowed and what is not allowed the more they move farther away from being a common carrier. > Social media companies don't become more liable just because they moderate. Actually they do: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/1997-98/defamation-and-the-internet/sections/liability/part2.html#:~:text=The%20opposite%20role%20from%20a,the%20newspapers%20containing%20defamatory%20material.&text=A%20third%20category%2C%20between%20common,is%20the%20category%20of%20distributor https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/1997-.... And also: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/1997-98/defamation-and-the-internet/sections/precedent/cases.html https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/1997-...