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> Newspapers have restricted what they publish for centuries.

Absolutely. And they don't say "we're just a platform transporting information", they restrict what they publish.

> They don't allow libellous, defamatory, salacious or inappropriate comments for example.

They do. And they get sued for it, and they can lose, see Gawker. Precisely because they are not like Twitter.



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