If you host your own Wordpress site, and use it to publish illegal content, then you are criminally responsible. Facebook have immunity from being held liable for the content published on their platform granted by the telecommunications decency act:
>No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
The party who publishes the content is liable, not the service that distributes it.
Often not discussed when this law comes up, is that it has a Good Samaritan clause:
>any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected
The question is whether Facebook, etc... are publishers of content, or mere distributors of content that others publish. Facebook will tell you that they are distributors of content. Their opponents will tell you that the editorial control they exert over their platforms is beyond the scope of the Good Samaritan clause of the law.
from Hacker News - New Comments: "WordPress" http://bit.ly/2YSxwLy
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