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A comment on Sixty Minutes Episode Is Pure Misleading Moral Panic About Section 230. Parent comment

Re:Sixty Minutes Episode Is Pure Misleading Moral Panic Abou... by dasil003 on Monday January 04, 2021 @07:08PM (#25640136)
You could sue the publisher, which is analogous to suing social media companies. Suing B&N is like suing an ISP.
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Re:Sixty Minutes Episode Is Pure Misleading Moral Panic Abou... by roywiggins on Monday January 04, 2021 @07:10PM (#25640155)
B&N makes way more moderation decisions than an ISP, they promote books, they recommend books, they lay out a store so you can browse the different books on offer. They aren't a dumb pipe like a good ISP.

Specialty bookstores are even less like an ISP, they might restrict themselves to one or a handful of genres. Leftist bookstores have an ideological filter. And so on. None of them are like ISPs at all.

It would be weird to make Medium treated like a publisher for hosting a defamatory blog post while a bookstore selling a bound copy of the same content would not be. That's why section 230 is a thing!

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