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newspapers can be sued for libel and social media companies cannot. That's the biggest difference. Twitter is _clearly_ acting as a publisher akin to a newspa
by lp0_on_fire 5y ago
newspapers can be sued for libel and social media companies cannot. That's the biggest difference.
Twitter is _clearly_ acting as a publisher akin to a newspaper by editorializing and controlling what posts are distributed on its platform which would be OK if they were subject to the same libel laws as a newspaper, but they're not.
It doesn't take a genius or even two eyeballs to see that twitters moderation tilts heavily in one direction and gives a pass to people of a certain political persuasion.
- anoonmoose 5y agoWorth noting that newspapers cannot be sued for the comments people post in the comment sections of their websites, even though they moderate those comment sections, for the same reason that social media companies cannot. Guess what I'm saying is- you don't understand 230.
- jazzyjackson 5y agolibel laws and section 230 are very separate things, I don’t see why I couldn’t sue twitter for editorializing while twitter is still protected from being sued for third party content