Making that announcement of such a declaration from sources they have selected and filtered ( i.e. editorial control ) pretty much decides the question if they are merely a platform or a publisher under Section 230(c). Whether it is an 'opinion' from their corporate organization, or some sort of aggregation of of other media outlets makes no difference. The only vaguely neutral content they could propagate is links to the various agencies responsible for certifying the results. https://crsreports.congress.go... [congress.gov] , otherwise they are pre-empting a lot of steps between now and inauguration day.: The Electoral College: A2020 Presidential Election Timelinehttps://crsreports.congress.go... [congress.gov]
Their only intent is create further confusion and distrust around the results of these perfectly legal procedural rules.
from https://www.ncsl.org/research/... [ncsl.org]
Dec. 14, 2020: Meeting of the Electors. The electors meet in each state and cast their ballots for president and vice president. Each elector votes on his or her own ballot and signs it. The ballots are immediately transmitted to various people: one copy goes to the president of the U.S. Senate (who is also the vice president of the United States); this is the copy that will be officially counted later. Other copies go to the state's secretary of state, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the presiding judge in the district where the electors meet (this serves as a backup copy that would replace the official copy sent to the president of the Senate if it is lost or destroyed).
The District System
Maine and Nebraska are the only states that do not use a winner-take-all system. Instead, in these two states, one electoral vote is awarded to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote in each congressional district, and the remaining two electoral votes are awarded to the candidates receiving the most votes statewide. This is known as the district system. It is possible under the district system to split the electoral vote for the state. This happened in 2008 in Nebraska: Barack Obama won the electoral vote in the congressional district including Omaha, while John McCain won in the state's other two districts and won the statewide vote as well, securing the state's two at-large votes. Thus, when the Nebraska presidential electors met in December 2008, there were four Republican electors and one Democrat. That election was the first time Nebraska's electoral vote was split.
Making that announcement of such a declaration from sources they have selected and filtered ( i.e. editorial control ) pretty much decides the question if they are merely a platform or a publisher under Section 230(c).
*sigh* this tired shit again. No. Having an opinion doesn't not make you a publisher. Publishing an opinion does not turn your platform into a publication either. And it may utterly blow you little mind that even newspapers have things like comment sections covered by Section 230(c).
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Their only intent is create further confusion and distrust around the results of these perfectly legal procedural rules.
from https://www.ncsl.org/research/... [ncsl.org] Dec. 14, 2020: Meeting of the Electors. The electors meet in each state and cast their ballots for president and vice president. Each elector votes on his or her own ballot and signs it. The ballots are immediately transmitted to various people: one copy goes to the president of the U.S. Senate (who is also the vice president of the United States); this is the copy that will be officially counted later. Other copies go to the state's secretary of state, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the presiding judge in the district where the electors meet (this serves as a backup copy that would replace the official copy sent to the president of the Senate if it is lost or destroyed).
The District System Maine and Nebraska are the only states that do not use a winner-take-all system. Instead, in these two states, one electoral vote is awarded to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote in each congressional district, and the remaining two electoral votes are awarded to the candidates receiving the most votes statewide. This is known as the district system. It is possible under the district system to split the electoral vote for the state. This happened in 2008 in Nebraska: Barack Obama won the electoral vote in the congressional district including Omaha, while John McCain won in the state's other two districts and won the statewide vote as well, securing the state's two at-large votes. Thus, when the Nebraska presidential electors met in December 2008, there were four Republican electors and one Democrat. That election was the first time Nebraska's electoral vote was split.
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Making that announcement of such a declaration from sources they have selected and filtered ( i.e. editorial control ) pretty much decides the question if they are merely a platform or a publisher under Section 230(c).
*sigh* this tired shit again. No. Having an opinion doesn't not make you a publisher. Publishing an opinion does not turn your platform into a publication either. And it may utterly blow you little mind that even newspapers have things like comment sections covered by Section 230(c).