Comment by mjburgess
5 years ago
perhaps there aren't two sides.. that there is a genuine third form: the publisher-platform -- one which best describes both how these platforms do operate, and how they should do so.
When you have billions of users wanting to post content you can hardly be a publisher in any traditional sense; nor will the gov./society/users let you be a platform.
I think there is a distinction between just creating content on a platform, vs. actively recommending content and surfacing it to people not already explicitly following the person.
The latter is a type of tacit endorsement that to me, falls under the guise of "publishing", even if it's done in an automated fashion.