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> In other words, the fundamental issue here is not really whether big tech platforms should be regulated as speakers, as that’s a misconception of what they do. They don’t speak, they are middlemen. And hopefully, we will follow the logic of Matey’s opinion, and start to see the policy problem as what to do about that.

This is a pretty good take, and it relies on pre-Internet legal concepts like distributor and producer. There's this idea that our legal / governmental structures are not designed to handle the Internet age and therefore need to be revamped, but this is a counterexample that is both relevant and significant.




They are more than middlemen when they are very carefully choosing what content each person sees or doesn't see.




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