I don't think the distinction between publisher and service provider is just a legal technicality. This goes into the heart of what facebook is. Facebook no mor

I don't think the distinction between publisher and service provider is just a legal technicality. This goes into the heart of what facebook is. Facebook no more "publishes" content than a hosting provider publishes my blog that I created. They are the service provider, I am the publisher. The moral responsibility for content is on me and me alone. With that said, for a hosting provider to remove content after I published it is censorship. The distinction between censoring and refusing to publish is critical here. Facebook as a service provider would be censoring information rather than (retroactively) refusing to publish, as such this action should require a higher level of justification. All this said is in defense of their not censoring this image, as it does not meet the heightened level of justification required for censoring (from their perspective). >And FWIW, I think you way over-interpreted netrus' comment. All he did was point out the flaw in mixedbit's comparison After rereading the comment and its parent more carefully, you may be right.