I think Twitter and Facebook and such should worry more. I do not think it would take a change to say they are not publishers but are owners of the content. I think they are ripe for a lawsuit from someone who they shut down or who got insulted and he could argue in court that their editing and restrictions on posts make them the owners and providers of the content. It can be argued that a publisher is not allowed to censor opinions and post warning labels like these companies do. I think their algorithms that define what you get to see would also argue that they are not merely publishers that are exempt.tomneal wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 10:00 pm So...
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The owner of this forum can't get sued because of section 242 (or some such section) because they aren't a publisher. Twitter, (and others) are hammering at the boundaries. If they irritate enough congress critters, the law could be changed but, they don't care. If they get sued, so what! They have staff lawyers. It will not affect their bottom line.
If the law changes, it very well may, affect small forums, like this one.
The owners of these forums don't have lawyers on staff.
A serious lawsuit could get the forum shut down.
That would just push more business to Twitter.
(Sorry, I may just be getting paranoid because of the election.)
Yes, I know the old newspaper did it also, but they could always argue that they had a restriction on what was printed due to their space requirements. Electronic companies cannot do that.