The NYT can control what they print, and they are also responsible for what they print.
Twitter can control what it "prints", but is not responsible.
Those situations aren't the same. At all.
Historically, there were platforms (like newspapers) that had full control of what information they disseminated and had full responsibility for that information, and "common carrier" platforms (like the phone company) that did not control what information was disseminated and accordingly were not responsible for it.
Twitter and its brethren want the best of both worlds -- freedom to censor, but no responsibility.
> Twitter can control what it "prints", but is not responsible.
I agree that this is a problem that I wish was addressed, but honestly, I dont know what kind of overreaching, anti-freedom (/s kind of?) law would need to be passed. The reason it worked for news papers was they were printing news, and news has to be true (or at least not outright lies).
Twitter, Facebook, *chan, parlor, Truth social (is that actually a thing yet?) would all just say they dont print the news, and that every post is opinion.
Which even the NYT opinion pieces don't fall under the same editorial scrutiny as their news, and legally are completely separate.
I think you'll find that online media is explicitly protected from being sued for defamatory or infringing content under the DMCA, as long as they take the material down.
Print media cannot "take down" content, but does enjoy a similar immunity as regards third party content. You should probably educate yourself on the subject, it would save you from making silly arguments.
Twitter can control what it "prints", but is not responsible.
Those situations aren't the same. At all.
Historically, there were platforms (like newspapers) that had full control of what information they disseminated and had full responsibility for that information, and "common carrier" platforms (like the phone company) that did not control what information was disseminated and accordingly were not responsible for it.
Twitter and its brethren want the best of both worlds -- freedom to censor, but no responsibility.
They should have to choose one or the other.