@SrRochardBunson @FantasticalEconomics Assuming you're talking about the US context, this is false. There is no such thing as declaring something a platform or a publisher.
The main laws in question, Section 230, is only about whether the speech is created by the website or by a 3rd party.
Some, usually ignorant, politicians have *PRETENDED* that there is a distinction between platform and publisher, but they're either misinformed or willfully misrepresenting reality.