If NYT does the selection and curation then it's not. Same way opinion piece inspired by what author heard from other people is not a platform for those people.
In America at least, there are different sets of rules for different types of business.
A curated opinion piece, carefully chosen by experienced editors, is vastly different from a public swimming pool. For the first, that filter, that exclusivity, that editorializing is part of the draw. It’s good because it’s a filter, not a platform.
The public pool should not be a filter, and yes, sometimes there are weird things that float in there, and it takes effort to clean up, but that’s the cost of being open to the public.