If a journalist doesnt censor people, then they are protected. So would 230 still apply?
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Censorship is not part of the Sec 230 criteria. It has to do with "freedom to post" versus "exercising editorial discretion" over the content.
They can delete comments and block people based on terms of service violations. The issue is they seem to "accidentally" block conservative users and delete their posts then days later apologize for the "error". Never happens to Liberals. So far, neither FB nor Twitter have been able to name a single high-profile Liberal user who's been treated the same as Conservatives. If these were truly errors and accidents, the incidents would be roughly distributed evenly among all political spectrums.
That's the issue -- political bias and lopsided enforcement of their own policies. Even when they come back and admit they blocked someone without good reason, the damage has been done and is irreversible. Social media requires immediate interaction when a situation or issue is trending. Days later, the interactions with other users on those topics is a fraction of what it would have been, and that equates to lost revenue for the maligned Conservative members.
So, in short, they can't favor one political party or ideology and continually block the opposing party and claim they are not publishers. They are exercising editorial discretion based on political bias -- nothing else.