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SideQuark • today at 10:36 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

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.


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GrinningFool • today at 2:43 PM

But that legal meaning of the word can be changed by changing the laws. Seems that's what's under discussion here.