Speaking with a journalist from Axios, Google CEO Sundar Pichai doubled down on recent statements made by Google’s YouTube, openly admitting that YouTube acts as a publisher, not a platform, as they censor what they deem to be too controversial to exist on their sites. By definition, “publishers” edit what is on their sites, which means they are responsible for the content, while platforms eschew censoring and are thus not responsible for the content on them.
As Adam Candeub, law professor & director of the Intellectual Property, Information & Communications Law Program at Michigan State University and anti-trust attorney Mark Epstein explained in The City-Journal in May, 2018:
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As Adam Candeub, law professor & director of the Intellectual Property, Information & Communications Law Program at Michigan State University and anti-trust attorney Mark Epstein explained in The City-Journal in May, 2018:
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes online platforms for their users’ defamatory, fraudulent, or otherwise unlawful content. Congress granted this extraordinary benefit to facilitate “forumfor a true diversity of political discourse.” This exemption from standard libel law is extremely valuable to the companies that enjoy its protection, such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter, but they only got it because it was assumed that they would operate as impartial, open channels of communication—not curators of acceptable opinion.
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