[anigbrowl]

True, but if I'm a publisher my liability would arise from publishing false stories like 'shkkmo distributes ransomware' or incitement like 'push shkkmo into traffic.' On the other hand, if I am the editor/publisher of Dweeb Aficionado I am under no obligation to give you editorial space or sell you advertising, except (in US law) if you can show that I am systematically excluding advertising from a class of people like you which enjoys some sort of legal protection.

[shkkmo]

I fail to see the relevance of this. As a publisher exerting editorial control, you also assume some liability for your content as that editorial control is a form of speech.

Printers who exert no editorial control are not engaging in speech and are thus not liable for the content they print (same with the ink, paper and printing press manufacturers.)

[anigbrowl]

The first sentence in my comment above defines the scope and limits of my liability.