Re: Parler

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr () thyrsus com>]

sronan () ronan-online com <sronan () ronan-online com>:
> While Amazon is absolutely within their rights to suspend anyone they want for violation of their TOS, it does create 
> an interesting problem. Amazon is now in the content moderation business, which could potentially open them up to 
> liability if they fail to suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content. 
>
> When I actively hosted USENET servers, I was repeatedly warned by in-house and external counsel, not to moderate 
> which groups I hosted based on content, less I become responsible for moderating all groups, shouldn’t that same 
> principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter? 

Yes, it would.  This was an astonnishingly stupid move on AWS's part;
I'm prett sure their counsel was not conmsulted.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>