Ah, yes... re-enter the experiences of Compuserve. For that, I give you Telecom '96 and section 230 which, they think, makes them exempt from such things. Regardless, there are a whole lot of little triggering pebbles that risk being trodden upon here. From monopolist behaviour to basic discrimination (just because you're a private company, you do not have the right to descriminate in who you are willing to do business with. Wasn't that the whole point of the wedding thing?), there are many things to be careful of here, even though it will probably be a hard sell. Still, damned irresponsible to risk touch that precedent, IMO. It means a whole lot of flak comes around to the rest of us. On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 08:42:56AM -0500, sronan@ronan-online.com wrote:
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?
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On Jan 10, 2021, at 3:24 AM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
???Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspensio...
Regards, Bill HErrin
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