[Pappy Smear]

They need to decide if they are a platform or a publisher. The phone company is a platform. They cannot turn off your service for telling a lie to someone over the phone. The advantage is, they can't be sued for something that is illegally said on their platform. If I say I want to murder someone on their phone line, the phone company holds no liability.

A publisher has the total right to control the content on their product. That is an advantage. The downside, is they can be sued for libel for anything that goes on on their product.

Companies like Twitter and Facebook have been trying to take the advantages of being a platform or a publisher, without the downsides. They need to pick which one they are. Are they like a phone company, or are they like a newspaper?

[Monty22002]

Since they are only hosting members’ opinions, I’m not sure how they can be liable. Is JR liable for what someone says on FR? No. In fact on my post 271 I link to a site that pretty much clears all this up.

[RandFan]

Jack , the CEO of twitter just made a rare set of posts re: fact checking Trump. He must be rattled.

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1265837138114830336