How is this different from other media? It's already common practice with magazines that contain product reviews. There's nothing stopping companies from doing this with bulletin boards and blogs.
Ahhh, yes, and you literally just described Section 230 exemptions vs. being a publisher.
Yes, publishers are able to act as publishers and also get held responsible for what they publish. Social media sites are exempt from this under Section 230 rules, but that assumes they are not unfairly moderating their sites and turning into publishers.
Yes, you literally just described what is a publisher and why their abuse of Section 230 law is not ok. You all who are supporting this overmoderation of Reddit seem to want Reddit to be a publisher.
Well, with becoming a publisher and unfairly moderating the site, you lose Section 230 protections. You can't have your cake and eat it too, but that is what Reddit and many of the supporters of overmoderation want to do.
> Social media sites are exempt from this under Section 230 rules, but that assumes they are not unfairly moderating their sites and turning into publishers.
No, it doesn't. Section 230 has nothing about “unfair moderation”; it explictly allows online services to act as publishers within certain boundaries (to which the “fairness” of any moderation is not relevant, only whether the content is user-generated rather than first-party) without being legally treated as publishers for most civil liability purposes.