Internet companies that call themselves "platforms" instead of publishers have no special legal protections or obligations under the Communications Decency Act (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Internet companies that call themselves “platforms” instead of publishers have no special legal protections or obligations under the Communications Decency Act  —  from the stop-pushing-this-nonsense dept  —  Alexis Madrigal, over at the Atlantic has a mostly interesting piece recounting …

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