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A comment on Twitter to ban political advertising. Parent comment

Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by ivnubinas on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @10:17PM (#21405085)
So Facebook should be regulated as a publisher?
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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by liara_k on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:24PM (#21405470)
If this is intended to make a §230 argument, consider that its reason d'etre is based on the complete impracticality of pre-clearing user generated content.

The practical considerations differ by orders of magnitude when we're talking about paid advertisements.

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