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Re:YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer... by stx on Monday June 29, 2020 @07:26PM (#23684655)
It is a gray area and social media platforms sit somewhere in-between being a common carrier and a being a publisher. Your right there is no hard legal line but the more they decide what is allowed and what is not allowed the more they move farther away from being a common carrier.

> Social media companies don't become more liable just because they moderate.

Actually they do:

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/1997-....

And also: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/1997-...

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Re:YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer... by amanaplanacanal on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @12:55AM (#23686694)
It appears that those links describe the conditions before passage of the communications decency act of 1996. That was all overturned by section 230 of the CDA.
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