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If Social Media Companies Are Publishers and Not Platforms, That Changes Everything — Social Media HQ
The ongoing debate over whether social media companies like Facebook and Twitter should be considered platforms or publishers is really starting to heat up. In fact, things are getting so hot that the White House has stepped into the middle of the debate, suggesting that the time has finally comesocialmediahq.com
Tuossa on hyvä artikkeli siitä miksi se alusta (platform) status on niin tärkeä esim Twitterille. Siinä ei vaikuta tuo 1st Amendment mitään vaan se mikä tuossa on tärkeää on se että onko Twitter vastuussa siitä mitä porukka Twitteriin laittaa. Jos Twitter on alusta niin se ei tarvitse aktiivisesti valvoa sitä mitä sen alustalla julkaistaan kunhan se poistaa laittoman sisällön kun se huomataan. Jos Twitter taas menettäisi tuon alusta statuksen niin se olisi suoraan vastuussa siitä että mitä siellä julkaistaan. Ongelma tuossa on nyt se että Twitter haluaa hallita sitä sisältöä mistä se ei ite tykkään, eli toimia kuten julkaisija, kuitenkaan ottamatta vastuuta muusta sisällöstä, eli saada saman suojan kuten alusta.
Paitsi että tuossa toistetaan niitä samoja harhaluuloja jotka on ammuttu alas jo vaikka kuinka monta kertaa, esimerkiksi EFF:n toimesta:
It’s Not Section 230 President Trump Hates, It’s the First Amendment
President Trump’s recent threat to “unequivocally VETO” the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) if it doesn’t include a repeal of Section 230 may represent the final attack on online free speech of his presidency, but it’s certainly not the first. The NDAA is one of the “must-pass” bills...
Two myths about Section 230 have developed in recent years and clouded today’s debates about the law. One says that Section 230 somehow requires online services to be “neutral public forums”: that if they show “bias” in their decisions about what material to show or hide from users, they lose their liability shield under Section 230 (this myth drives today’s deeply misguided “platform vs. publisher” rhetoric). The other myth is that if Section 230 were repealed, online platforms would suddenly turn into “neutral” forums, doing nothing to remove or promote certain users’ speech. Both myths ignore that Section 230 isn’t what protects platforms’ right to reflect any editorial viewpoint in how it moderates users’ speech—the First Amendment to the Constitution is. The First Amendment protects platforms’ right to moderate and curate users’ speech to reflect their views, and Section 230 additionally protects them from certain types of liability for their users’ speech. It’s not one or the other; it’s both.
Publisher or Platform? It Doesn't Matter.
“You have to choose: are you a platform or a publisher?”It’s the question that makes us pull out our hair and roll our eyes. It’s the question that makes us want to shout from the rooftops “IT DOESN’T MATTER. YOU DON’T HAVE TO CHOOSE”We’ll say it plainly here: there is no legal significance to...
When politicians like Sen. Ted Cruz demand that Twitter identify itself as either a “publisher” or a “platform,” they usually make this false distinction in the entirely erroneous context of 47 U.S.C. § 230, the provision of U.S. law that grants broad immunity from liability to online intermediaries when such liability would be based on the speech of others. Rather than enshrine some significance between online “platforms” and “publishers,” Section 230 intentionally nullifies any distinction that might have existed. Contrary to popular misconception, immunity is not a reward for intermediaries that choose the path of total neutrality (whatever that means); nor did Congress enact Section 230 with an expectation that Internet services were or would become completely neutral. Section 230 explicitly grants immunity to all intermediaries, both the “neutral” and the proudly biased. It treats them exactly the same, and does so on purpose.
That’s a feature of Section 230, not a bug.
So online services did not self-identify as “platforms” to mythically gain Section 230 protection—they had that already.
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