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> Are you saying publishers can’t arbitrarily decide what to publish or not?

Publishers can do this, yes. They just are not offered the legal protections of being a platform, if they act as a publisher.

The point is, that someone is acting as a publisher, then they should have these legal protections taken away form them.



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