logoalt Hacker News

erentz • today at 2:37 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

You're just responding here by saying "by law they are not thing X" in response to people who are saying "maybe the law should be different because they sure act like thing X".


Replies

SideQuark • today at 10:36 AM

No. Did you read the law? You wanting them to be a publisher because you don’t understand the difference between a legal use of a word and a popular use of a word does not make them a publisher any more than the right to bear arms means I can go shirtless.

Publisher, in the legal sense, has a long history, and content providers are not that any more the the word arm in the legal sense means human arms.

➕ show 1 reply