On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 10:03:51AM -0500, sronan@ronan-online.com wrote:
Another interesting angle here is that it as ruled President couldn???t block people, because his Tweets were government communication. So has Twitter now blocked government communication?
That's not interesting or even a reasonable comparison. Twitter wasn't involved in the former. There is a huge difference in the President being told that he cannot block random citizens from reading his tweets (no Twitter involvement), and Twitter declaring that they no longer wish to provide service to the President (Twitter's right as it is their private property). The President is free to pursue alternative venues for his messaging. Conflating unrelated things and drawing bad conclusions is not useful. At some point, it seems likely that the networking community may be faced with more choices such as what Cloudflare faced with 8chan. In an ideal world, people would act responsibly and we could have the nice things like libertarian ideals, but the reality as demonstrated by the last quarter century seems to indicate otherwise, in many small and not- so-small ways. I find that distressing, but I am not so libertarian as to insist that others pay for this stuff with their lives. I don't have any idea what the correct answer is, though. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"-Asimov