[Openurmind]

“They aren’t the publishers.”

Yes the users are. TikTok is just a public platform/soapbox where users can go post/publish their own personal material. Just like us here...

Did the FR just publish that reply to me? No you did. They only supplied the means to do so. “Post” = Publish. In fact on our forum the post button actually says “Publish”. Same at a lot of platforms.

[pierrem15]

I'm sorry, but technically what you said is nonsense: you or I can only reply to one another using FR's platform and FR makes it available on the web. It's like letter writers and reviewers responding to one another in a published book review.

To be the publishers, we would need our own websites, just like we would need our own printing presses if we started a newspaper. Like other publishers, FR prints a disclaimer about opinions and does not claim copyright over what's published. But it's still legally the publisher.

All I am saying is that US publishers are covered by the Bill of Rights. TikTok is not.