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jasongetsdown t1_j28wpy0 wrote

Sharing things other people wrote is just another way to say publication. The real reason is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which explicitly exempts them from being treated as a publisher: https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230

“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider”

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