On a text-based platform with limited characters, “editorial choices” is being used as colloquial shorthand for not just content curation but also responsibility of what exactly is or isn’t being published on one’s platform. Mets constantly says they are not responsible for the latter

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The difference is MSNow openly states they make editorial choices and Zuck very much pretends to not make editorial choices because he insists his platforms are not under the same regulatory frameworks as news orgs

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Schrödinger's platform: simultaneously a publisher and not a publisher.

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Just to be clear: if Elon Musk orders his minions to fix the Twitter algo so that it puts Radio Rwanda style-exhortations to kill your Somali neighbor at the top of every feed, is it your position that Twitter is still protected as a mere "intermediary?" Because he is marching right up to that line.

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My concern is that you're confusingly resistant to making real arguments, and are instead advancing very stupid ones. Isn't this supposed to be your subject of expertise? Why are you trying to persuade people using stupid arguments instead of substantive ones?

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