because we do not want corporations claiming protections that they do not deserve. Editorializing content by twitter's own employees, or by crowd-sourcing, is

because we do not want corporations claiming protections that they do not deserve. Editorializing content by twitter's own employees, or by crowd-sourcing, is still editorializing. So Twitter and FB, HN and others are publishers, not platforms. Claiming legal shields that apply to platforms, therefore, is not legal. This is like claiming taxable deduction of a charity, while being a for-profit-business.