Can sombody tell me what, in whackworld, is the sacred difference between a

[niyad]

"platform", and a "publisher"? A person I know keeps insisting on this distinction, without [surprise!) being able to articulate the difference. Was reminded of this on seeing that berenson idiot's latest threat.

[elleng]

1. A platform is a technological space designed to serve as a host for a wide variety of things,

including web sites. A publisher creates content and materials and then publishes those things using both physical and online platforms.

[niyad]

4. So how do these differences, at least in whackworld, make facebook eligible for suit

under the First Amendment? Still trying to figure it out.

[elleng]

7. Dunno, and you and I are not the only ones 'looking' for an answer.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-it-doesnt-matter

[niyad]

9. Thank you for that most illuminating link.

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[Phoenix61]

2. Just a guess, a platform is where the information is.

A publisher is someone who puts stuff on a platform.

[ShazamIam]

3. They probably mean, partisan instead of platform connecting it with party politics or their favorite

word, agenda. At least that is what I gathered once in a long long discussion that included consultations with the dictionary to come to an agreement on how a word was being used, etc. in a nutshell, some of the conservatives use platform as an synonym for having a partisan political agenda.

[niyad]

6. This was specifically about facebook and twitter.

[Make7]

5. A publisher can be held liable for content they host, a platform is largely immune.

They are trying to say Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. are publishers so people should be able to sue the companies for simply hosting certain content submitted by users. It's all related to Section 230.

https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230

I doubt they want the same rules to apply to Parler, Gab, etc. - only to successful companies they don't like.

[Haggard Celine]

8. I think that's sort of like asking what is

the difference between Twitter and Jeff Bezos. Twitter could be compared to the Washington Post since both are a means to provide information. But Jeff Bezos, the publisher, couldn't be compared with Twitter.