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		ryandrake on June 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and hi... It is becoming easier and easier to argue that these platforms are actually publishers. They are all making more editorial decisions on what posts to show and hide, where to show what, and they all have rules about what content is allowed and what's not. Those sound like the activities of a publisher to me.

kevinh on June 3, 2020 | [–]

You are explicitly permitted to do this by the law without being classified as a publisher.

cousin_it on June 3, 2020 | [–]

Interesting point, but then is a search engine a publisher? Should it be liable for everything it shows, because it decides what to show or hide?

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