Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders who break rules

Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by vxNsr on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @08:28PM (#21265720)

Nope. Fox News, and all news orgs are publishers, Twitter, Facebook and co are platforms. Fox News and CNN are responsible for anything published on their website. Twitter, fb, etc are not.

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Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by foxtr0t on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @09:30PM (#21266142)

Why does that distinction matter? Is there language in campaign finance law that says news orgs are exempt from certain restrictions?

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Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by ScottFree on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @07:55AM (#21269393)

Thanks for asking this question. I hadn't actually looked into the legal precedents until now.

This is a decent article on the subject: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=1804a02d-a015...

tl;dr: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 states, "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."

The courts have upheld on multiple occasions (Pennie v. Twitter, Inc.; Fields v. Twitter, Inc.; Murphy v Twitter, Inc.) that Twitter is a provider of an interactive computer service.

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