In article <2ab9a074-bb67-4e75-1db1-2c7fff87f0c8@rollernet.us> you write:
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
On 1/10/21 4:00 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: 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.
Surely everyone on this list, purportedly a network operators list, has to have at least heard of 47 USC Section 230... right?
Unfortunately, you appear to be wildly overoptimistic.