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Twitter had its own substack feature but Musk shut it down the other day because Jack started using it and it made him cry. There's also a whole heap of differ
by drcongo 4y ago
Twitter had its own substack feature but Musk shut it down the other day because Jack started using it and it made him cry.
There's also a whole heap of different laws applying to being a "publication" which Twitter currently skirts by claiming to be a platform not a publication - if they declared themselves a publication (as Musk accidentally did the other day because he's not very bright) they would lose the Section 230 protections.
- tzs 4y ago> There's also a whole heap of different laws applying to being a "publication" which Twitter currently skirts by claiming to be a platform not a publication - if they declared themselves a publication (as Musk accidentally did the other day because he's not very bright) they would lose the Section 230 protections. That's not how section 230 works. See [1] for a decent explanation. [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-it-doesnt-matter https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-...
- drcongo 4y agoThanks, that's an excellent write-up and I stand corrected.