[swixi]

Can you define what a "platform" is? And do you think there is a legal distinction between the two?

If this is regarding section 230, around which this dichotomy always seems to surface, then are you aware that the word "platform" does not appear in the text of said section?

[zests]

Platform is user uploaded content with minimal censorship and where the platform has minimal responsibility over the content. Publisher is curated content with arbitrary censorship and heavy responsibility over the content.

As a voter, I'd expect to be able to use the platform/publisher spectrum to determine how much censorship a service should have. If a service has censorship capabilities different from what a large enough part of the population thinks they should have then the law should be changed to rectify this.

My questions to you (and anyone else):

Where does YouTube lie on this idealized platform/publisher perspective? How much censorship ability should they have? To what degree does your expectations of their censorship ability differ from their actual censorship ability according to the law?

[nobody9999]

There is no legal basis for the false distinction you're making between platform and publisher.

The law explicitly allows YouTube (or Twitter, or HackerNews, for that matter) to do exactly that.

You are operating under at least one misconception. Perhaps this[0] can help.

[0]https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...