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You're a publisher as soon as you put an infrastructure for users to put stuff on the net. Curating or not doesn't matter. Disclosure: personal opinion, ianal.

• Nextgrid 6y ago
  In this case would you consider the telephone company a publisher too?
  • monsieurgaufre 6y ago
    No. I can't publish stuff on their website. They "sell" me the use of the "pipes", not what i do with it.
    • smichel17 6y ago
      What about Signal / Whatsapp? What about Matrix / Discord / Slack? Looking for the line you'd like to draw.
      • xxpor 6y ago
        Are they physically providing the internet connection? No? Then they're not common carriers and they should have 230 protections.
• tertius 6y ago
  In one sense yes, but not the one that matters here.
  • monsieurgaufre 6y ago
    As i said, ianal and it's my own personal opinion. Others here have better expressed my views on the subject. Disruption is not always a good thing. Especially when it has large societal impacts.
    • tertius 6y ago
      If you opinion is about one of the technical meanings of the word publish outside of the reading of the law then your opinion the law. So yes you're right, but it's not relevant to section 230 at all.