Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext...
by thu2111 on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @02:45AM
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So if I run a large chess forum, and want to delete posts that aren't about chess, I would have to choose "publisher"?
No. Any such law could easily have provisions that exclude moderation for off-topic content (which would be defined carefully so as to include spam).
It would mean you can't delete "trolling", "bullying", on-topic flamewars and other categories of things you might want. To do that you'd have to indeed become a publisher. And then you'd need to respond to complaints quickly and take down libellous content, or become responsible for it.
No. Any such law could easily have provisions that exclude moderation for off-topic content (which would be defined carefully so as to include spam).
It would mean you can't delete "trolling", "bullying", on-topic flamewars and other categories of things you might want. To do that you'd have to indeed become a publisher. And then you'd need to respond to complaints quickly and take down libellous content, or become responsible for it.