{"id":1880,"date":"2020-12-13T22:36:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T22:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darachi.com\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2020-12-21T22:22:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T22:22:13","slug":"alan-dershowitz-big-tech-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darachi.com\/alan-dershowitz-big-tech-censorship","title":{"rendered":"Alan Dershowitz \u2014 &#8220;Social Media Giants Are Acting As Platforms While Also Acting As Publishers&#8221; [Quick Snip]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/cats-interviews\/alan-dershowitz-12-13-20\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nDuring Sunday\u2019s broadcast of New York WABC 770 AM radio\u2019s \u201cThe Cats Roundtable,\u201d Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz took aim at big tech companies like Twitter and Facebook for censoring users on their platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Dershowitz said the social media giants are acting as platforms while also acting as publishers, which he said is \u201cnot fair\u201d because they have both censorship and immunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook says we don\u2019t like this, and Twitter says we don\u2019t like attacks on Hunter Biden. And once you act as a publisher, you\u2019re a publisher. You know what it means \u2014 I mean, you are a publisher. And you can be sued because you\u2019re a publisher,\u201d Dershowitz told host John Catsimatidis. \u201cBut they are platforms. They can\u2019t be platforms at the same time and act like publishers. They should have to check a box: If you\u2019re going to be a platform, no censorship. If you\u2019re not going to be a platform, then you don\u2019t get immunity. But you can\u2019t both have censorship and get immunity at the same time. That\u2019s just not fair and not right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI think we\u2019re going to see a revision of [Section] 230. We\u2019re also seeing anti-trust cases now against Facebook and others. Look, this is the hardest question under the First Amendment in the 21st-century \u2014 is how to deal with these giant social media that have such an enormous impact, are not regulated \u2026 on the other hand, we can\u2019t just let them be immune from the law. 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